Primary Education...

As you'll remember, Or So I Thought... can never resisted delving into the baffling world of American politics from time to time and what better excuse for another vitriolic rambling than this morning's Party Primaries, in which Delaware, the state we have to thank for such revolutionaries as Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich Manoeuvre and Teri Polo, Helen Santos out of off the West Wing, elected ultra-Conservative Christine O'Donnell to a position of power.

'What's wrong with ultra-Conservatives?' I hear you cry. To which I say: "We've been through this NUMEROUS times. Have I taught you nothing?!"

To clarify, Christine O'Donnell ran on the rather audacious pro-gun, anti-abortion, anti-masturbation ticket- I can only expect that Nick Griffin is scribbling notes furiously (and, no, 'scribbling notes' is not a euphemistic expression in contradiction with that last point)- and even by Tea Party standards is a little-bit right wing. The ideology is perhaps just a little odd -Killing a foetus - WRONG, shooting another human being - FINE, Masturbating = ADULTERY - but then I wouldn't expect anything less from the Tea Party. O'Donnell, whose totally credible backers include gun-toting, blow-up politician Sarah Palin and the National Rifle Association, has won a victory that is being cheered by the Democrats too however, who see the Tea Party as an easier fight than their moderate Republican counterparts.

To be fair, they've got a point. In the article that I found out about this from (from The Guardian, of course) they refer to Tea Party supporters as 'sympathisers'. If your party members or followers are known as 'sympathisers', you're almost certainly barking up the wrong, Fascist tree. That said, if there's anywhere crazy enough to vote in Palin's gun-loving, non-masturbators, it's (*an implied tiny and very isolated section and certainly not a majority of*) America... ahem...