S.C. Strikes Again [Gail Collins finds us quaint]

New York Times ^ | June 11, 2010 | GAIL COLLINS

[Slings and Arrows]

Alvin Greene filed for our sins.

Greene, an unemployed 32-year-old, is currently the most famous Democratic candidate in South Carolina. He just won the nomination to run against Senator Jim DeMint in November, overcoming major obstacles such as not having campaign staff, campaign funds, a campaign Web site, cellphone or personal computer. And then there’s the felony charge pending for allegedly showing a University of South Carolina student a pornographic picture.

I’m sorry we have to keep coming back to South Carolina. There are 50 states, and I’m sure every single one has some really peculiar political phenomena that we could make fun of if time allowed.

But South Carolina has definitely been on a roll. Earlier this week, it looked as if the big primary story was the two Republican political consultants who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Nikki Haley, a candidate for governor. Haley went on to finish 27 percentage points ahead of her closest rival. Having endured so many sex scandals with male candidates, we have long wondered what would happen when women running for high office started to get hit with adultery charges. Apparently, it makes them more popular.

Now there’s Alvin Greene. To get on the ballot in South Carolina, a candidate for Senate has to pay a $10,440 filing fee. By now, there are political junkies in every part of the United States who could make a list of things that Greene needed to spend money on more than he needed to be on an election ballot. The cellphone and computer would be nice. His own apartment. (He lives with his dad.) And a lawyer, since he’s currently being represented by a public defender in the obscenity case.

“That I’m not commenting on,” he said on MSNBC.

[Slings and Arrows]

Is it me, or is she just a tad patronizing?

[Slings and Arrows]

SC / Alvin Greene ping!

[upchuck]

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[FormerACLUmember]

Vile racist condescension by the vile racist NY Times:

“How does a lowly black get $10,000?” asks the disgusting article.

[sodpoodle]

****Vile racist condescension by the vile racist NY Times:

“How does a lowly black get $10,000?” asks the disgusting article.*****

More importantly, ‘why would the Dem.Party accept the money without vetting his credentials to represent it?’

One wise FReeper suggested the Dems were hoping he would be mistaken for Al Green the singer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZbqBUZbl8

[stevem]

Alvin Greene sounds superior to the vast majority of Democrat office holders.

[darkangel82]

NY Slimes liberal trash.

[JayVee]

Not unlike Illinois; when the Illinois Dems found that their duly voted-in Lt. Governor nominee had some fairly heavy baggage, they persuaded him to drop out. And then, rather than take the black candidate with the next highest number of votes, drafted the daughter of the late Sen. Paul Simon, a woman academic with zilch real world experience.

[Kozy]

Better yet on Fox this morning this racist Democratic consultant on with Pat Buchanan said the reason he won is that blacks know that Greene spelled with an”e” is black. Buchanan looked at him and said, “What?”

Another incident in which democrats show that they are racist first and foremost.

I 65 well almost and never knew that you can racially profile by the way someone spells Green or Greene that they are white or black..

[Wpin]

Gotta love this Greene!!! He is blowing the brains of the democrat party right out of their butts...

[Will88]

The state has open primaries, and it’s possible that thousands of Republicans cannily crossed over to give DeMint a pathetic opponent. But voters generally aren’t that sneaky. It’s more likely that Democrats drew a blank, then flipped a mental coin.

More likely none, of the candidates were well known, so Greene received a big chunk of the black vote, and a good vote from liberal white folks who thought it'd feel so good voting for a black guy, some of the same voting blocs that gave us our current president.

[George Varnum]

Just wild speculation here; nothing more.

Heard on the news that some Dems suspected Al of being a Republican “Plant” somehow wangled into winning in order to put up an eminently beatable candidate for the opposition...

Oh!; Wait!....;

...Sort of like what the Dems have been doing by registering as Republicans prior to or at (they can do that here in Maine) in order to plant weak ‘Pubbie Nominees into elections so that they can switch back to being Democrats prior to the generals and whip them handily with a not quite so sorry (or so they might convince the sheeple) Dem Candidate.

Works like a charm nearly every time it’s tried, as near as I can tell.

At the worst for them they “lose” and get a milquetoast “RINO” like Snowe, Collins, or (alas) Scott Brown instead who they can usually bring to heel when needed to advance their socialist agenda.

The name “John McCain” comes to mind, for instance...

Now I would never accuse the honorable GOP of turning a nasty Commucratic trick back on them like Rush Limbaugh tried to do with “Operation Chaos”... oh no!

But would a band of TEA PARTY underground insurgent political guerrillas be above it, assuming that they had the numbers to pull it off?

Hmmmmm...... (heh, heh...) };^{D~

[RobbyS]

Gail Collins slams DeMint for comparing the US with Germany before WWII. Well, before Hitler there was Weimar, and because of Weimar, Hitler.

[Darren McCarty]

that blacks know that Greene spelled with an”e” is black

Football players Kevin Greene and Scott Greene may have something to say about that.

[darkangel82]

Even if the dems had put up a better candidate, it isn’t as if anyone was going to beat Jim DeMint, anyway.

[DeaconRed]

Why Those mean, mean waskely Republicans, why they will do anything, anything I say. . . . .

[George Varnum]

Re #10: “He is blowing the brains of the democrat party right out of their butts...”

That would be kind of like a spontaneous hydraulic flatulation, wouldn’t it”

**~~{B^P=EZ0.3~~**X000!

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Better yet on Fox this morning this racist Democratic consultant on with Pat Buchanan said the reason he won is that blacks know that Greene spelled with an”e” is black. Buchanan looked at him and said, “What?”

It's a known fact.

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Gail says,

I’m sorry we have to keep coming back to South Carolina. There are 50 states, and I’m sure every single one has some really peculiar political phenomena that we could make fun of if time allowed.

But South Carolina has definitely been on a roll.

Why make fun of any state? Very nonproductive. Gail has managed to really piss me off. Stuck up NY liberal.

How 'bout your state, Gail, where the legislature figured the best way to stop failure of the govt workers' pension fund was to get a loan. From the pension fund (second paragraph from the bottom). Huh? And you think SC is weird?

[darkangel82]

If it’s NY Slimes you KNOW it’s stuck-up, elitist liberal stupidity.