The Palin Machine?All she has is a Facebook page! I'm not even sure she wants to run for national office while her children are so young, but the pols and pundits interpret her ever hiccup in that light.

Meanwhile Sharon Angle with backing by Tea Partiers has eliminated both Tarkanian and Lowden to be the Republican opponent of Harry Reid, who no doubt is already tuning up his political attack machine. Such things seldom have anything to do with how a candidate would handle the office, but they always become the media focus in covering elections.

A new question arises, with all the various Tea Party groups, will they begin to compete with each other and what does this mean in terms of their grass roots image? People are pretty fed up with politics as usual but even genuine grass roots candidates need organization.