BBC on the Tea Party:

And the movement has a new generation of heroines - Sarah Palin, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and, the most recent addition, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell - injecting folksy talk of good ol' American values into their economic beliefs.

O'Donnell arrives at the top parts of the party not without her colorful past. Indeed, Palin's past seems plain when compared with O'Donnell's. Not only was she once a witch, she also sued her former employer, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative non-profit based in Delaware, for "gender discrimination" and "wrongful termination." Her complaint:

Miss O’Donnell was and is profoundly humiliated by this demotion of being asked to perform clerical and administrative tasks, after appearing on national television as a media and public relations expert and spokeswoman, for a man who was hired straight out of college as ISI’s receptionist and clerical assistant, and whom she had been asked to train previously [emphasis in original]. [...]

For at least six months after being fired, Miss O’Donnell suffered enormous pain, cried frequently at the sense of personal loss and failure caused by ISI, and at the sense of injustice, and could not sleep at night, often wide-awake, replaying the whole scene in her mind, until 5:30 am, and has suffered from understandable and resulting depression.

Also in her complaint:

[O’Donnell] also claimed that in one instance a male colleague made a lewd comment to her. "On one occasion during her employment, a co-worker, Mr. Cain, in connection with Ms. O’Donnell’s efforts and work on the Gala, ordered or stated to Ms. O’Donnell to 'strap it on,' which was a crude and demeaning reference to an artificial male sexual organ used by some females in order to act like a male in sexual acts," the complaint alleged. "To Ms. O’Donnell’s knowledge and belief, Mr. Cain was never disciplined or reprimanded for making this offensive statement."

The offensive male sexual organ! How can we not see in all of this a strange kind of feminism that has roots growing deep in the Tea Party? It's not a conventional (or progressive) feminism, but the rebellion is certainly upsetting the GOP's male-dominated establishment.