"In My Time" published in a time no longer his

Can a book, even if it gets prime media space such as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, turn back time?  We will soon find out.

 
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has published his memoirs "In My Time."  This is at a time in GOP politics which is no longer his.  Out of the White House and wanting to return, the party has become almost like the Democrats.  There is public fighting.  There is radical ideology.  There is the embrace of charisma [which hadn't been around since Ronald Reagan]. 

Do Cheney and the rest of the old guard such as Karl Rove matter much any more?  It sure doesn't appear that way.  Could this be Cheney's Hail-Mary pass to maintain influence, both on front stage and behind the scenes? 

Actually this book, with all the tales told out-of-school, could reinforce any distrust the current BigFoot GOP players might have regarding left-overs from the Bush Administration. 

Some characterize the memoir as a spiteful strategy of getting-even.  If that take catches on, this one-time power broker could find himself in the political wilderness.  The new meme is forgiveness, sucking up how we ourselves were partly or even primarily at fault in the adversity visited on us.  Cheney's mind and heart clearly are not aligned with letting go of resentments and figuring out how to make it, maybe even in an extraordinary way, in the now.