… while passing the Church of Scientology building …

“Dad, What’s Scientology?”
“Oh, Don’t worry about it.”

………….

Actually I found a discarded Scientology book of some vintage, with a whole mass of writing all over the inside covers.  I was thinking of transcribing it — but my best guess is that it’s, like, an immature 17 year old boy trying (reasonably well, actually) to be potty mouthed in writing mock letters of “I want to be sexually dominated” manner.

Frankly, I’m not entirely sure what “Tea Party primary candidate” is supposed to mean right about now, (Rand Paul?  Sarah Palin?  Weird “Get off my Lawn” guy?), but here’s a round up of… people.

Glenn Jacobs, Professional Wrestler known as “Kane”, has the support of Ron Paul in a possible primary fight against Lamar Alexandar in Tennessee.  What’s wrong with Lamar Alexandar, in terms of “fiscal frugality” economics?  Oh, beats the Hell out of me — he is calling for the abolishment of the minimum wage, after all.

I suppose there is the matter of Immigration.  Which is a tough nut to crack, and is splittering all ways.  (The bill itself as well as the big wigs of consrvative umbrellas that hold up the term “Tea Party.”)   But, supposedly the group of Republicans you see here are roughly the “moderate” caucus, and there Lamar Alexandar sits.  The most recent tea party protests featured a splintering off of the main focus of to shouts against immigration.  So We’re settling into a debate where the Senate has passed a bill that proportedly pulls the border to the order of the Berlin Wall, where the House wants to bring it up to the standards of the Great Wall of China.

Another person.  Drewhurst of Texas.  Lietenant Governor (arguably equal, or maybe more so, in power than the governor of the state) who lost a primary election to the more right-ward Ted Cruz last election, in an election where the only difference seemed to be Cruz’s willingness to call everyone to his left a bunch of Communists, and Dewhurst’s willingness to suggest that Democrats might occasionally be human beings.  So here’s what we have in the current political story of Texas…

It is no surprise that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who is running for re-election, is a critical player in helping to push SB-5, now known as SB-1, through the Texas Senate. He faces the threat of a conservative primary challenger in 2014 and, after losing to the Tea Party-backed Ted Cruz in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2012, Dewhurst needs to pass this bill in order to prove his conservative chops to the base.

“Not only does he have to pass the anti-abortion legislation, but he has to do so in an efficient and a timely manner,” said Mark Jones, chairman of the political science department at Rice University. “If, by some stretch of the imagination, this legislation did not pass, Dewhurst should not even bother to run for re-election.”

Hm… I suppose names will be spouting out in short order of who this could possibly mean.  It may be a bit like Lindsey Graham, where — in the end, we just can’t conjure anyone up.

Finally, there’s… Sarah Palin.  If you want to ponder the “Third Party route“:

She responded to a Fox News Channel viewer’s Twitter question Saturday about the possibility of her and conservative talker Mark Levin abandoning the Republican Party and creating something called the “Freedom Party.”
“I love the name of that party — the ‘Freedom Party,’” Palin said. “And if the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and Reagan, then yeah, more and more of us are going to start saying, ‘You know, what’s wrong with being independent,’ kind of with that libertarian streak that much of us have. In other words, we want government to back off and not infringe upon our rights. I think there will be a lot of us who start saying ‘GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican.’ Remember these are private parties, and you know, no one forces us to be enlisted in either party.”

Not to be confused with the Peace and Freedom Party.  Unless she’s going for some cross-over voting action.  (Hey.  She did come out against military intervention in Syria, after all.)