While I don’t want any part of the mess surrounding the GOP run-off election for governor, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate is too intriguing to pass up. Former Army and Air Force member Alvin Greene may be the most tragically comic major party nominee this election cycle. Consider these opening paragraphs from a Washington Post profile:
Alvin M. Greene never gave a speech during his campaign to become this state’s Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn’t start a Web site or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There’s only $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee.
Indeed, in a three-hour interview, the unemployed military veteran could not name a single specific thing he’d done to campaign. Yet more than 100,000 South Carolinians voted for him on Tuesday, handing him nearly 60 percent of the vote and a resounding victory over Vic Rawl, a former judge who has served four terms in the state legislature.
Vic Rawl must be hating South Carolina voters today. So too might Greene’s Republican opponent, conservative stalwart Senator Jim DeMint. Imagine trying to run against a challenger with – to date – no position on anything other than, “We have to be pro-South Carolina.”
Things are getting awfully strange in the Palmetto State. Thankfully, its other U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is about as non-controversial as an immigration friendly, climate change believing Southern Republican can be.
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