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As a long term, proud political dissident and rebel I have had some admiration for the national tea party movement. I welcome all that shakes up and reforms our dysfunctional political system. But in the end I find far too much distasteful about what these people embrace to participate in or support it.

Does one pat her on the back, or ballyhoo her for reneging on her contract with Alaskan voters to represent their interests, instead of her own? In her inexplicable announcement, delivered in her unique meandering, hyper, and hop-scotch spontaneous manner of public speaking, she has left NY Times writers scratching their heads as to what her reasons and motives really are.

Most of us witnessed someone getting angry at someone else they can't strike out at, and going home and kicking the dog, instead. Poor dog. Nancy Pelosi has become the Republican's dog they love to kick because they can't seem to land a blow on Obama. She is a liberal and a female with power in a traditional man's role, and for many Republicans, that makes her the 'bitch' they love to kick if they can't undo Obama.

Republicans. Can't live with them in the majority. Can't live without them as a minority. Or, so contemporary American history appears to read. It seems the GOP will be the minority party in American government for at least another generation. The reasons are adequately highlighted by Perry Bacon Jr. of the Wa. Post as he writes about the GOP's challenges faced by the new RNC Chairman to be: "how to attract young and minority voters, win outside the South and counter an increasingly powerful Democratic majority."

Republicans like Rep. Eric Cantor don't realize it just yet, but he and Republicans just handed the keys to the kingdom to the Democrats. And if Democrats don't get the cooperation from the GOP on Thursday, they will use those keys in crafting their own solution, giving the people what they expected, and then let Republicans balk and wear the consequences for a failed economy for decades to come, if they so choose.

Sen. John McCain said:

My friends in the Democratic Party -- and I'm fortunate to call many of them my friends -- assure us they share the conviction that winning the war against terrorism is our government's most important obligation. I don't doubt their sincerity.

Palin's speech was delivered as well as it possibly could have been. But, it wasn't written by her, and one has to wonder if she even understood the fallacious allusions and logical holes in her statements big enough to rival the Grand Canyon. Perhaps Noonan and Murphy knew what was coming when, on an open microphone, they said the McCain ticket is dead, or words to that effect.

It is none of our business. The out of wedlock pregnancy of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter will be read into for meaning by people in accordance with their own similar, or lack of similar experiences and how they chose to deal with it. But, it has no bearing on whether Sarah Palin would be competent to step into the role of President should McCain be elected and not be able to finish his term of office.

Sen. McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin demonstrates once again his poor judgment. Sen. McCain is elderly and that increases the liklihood of Gov. Palin having to step in as President of the United States. This fact reflects poor judgment on McCain's part on several levels.