The Mad Hatter Party

Now I am travelling today so I didn't have that much time to follow everything as regards the primary results in the U.S. but did see that the financial muscle of the Tea Party was brought to bear and the Deleware Republican primary was won by their candidate, Christine O'Donnell.

So now it has come to pass. The right wing of the conservative spectrum in the U.S. has run their candidate against a traditional Republican in a primary and won. After casting Ms O'Donnell as completely unelectable the GOP establishment now has to decide what to do with her in the broader scheme of national politics.

Now Ms O'Donnell, not only adopts all the usual hard-line views on the major issues, she has gone so far as equating masturbation with adultery—advocating self-abstinence, and has apparently lied repeatedly about her education and political accomplishments.

This has got to be one of the most bizarre events in modern American political history, approaching, but not reaching Mr McCain's decision to name Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate and thereby opening the door to the Mad Hatter Party.

Let us hope it is just the Republican party that will now reap that which they have sown, and not the U.S.