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The case of Alvin Greene, who is now the Democratic Party’s nominee to run against Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), is bizarre. Greene never gave a speech, started a website, hired a staff, planted a lawn sign or spent his campaign funds — of which he currently has just $114 — on anything besides the filing fee. Yet he won Tuesday’s Democratic primary with nearly 60 percent of the vote, beating a former judge and four-term state legislator.
Now it comes to pass that Greene faces obscenity charges based on allegations that he showed a young girl pornography on his library computer screen and made lewd comments to her. There are is also some uncertainty about the circumstances surrounding his departure from the military, the most compelling part of the 32-year-old’s resume. Dave Weigel calls Greene the “kind of opponent candidates dream about.”
The Democratic establishment in South Carolina should be getting used to losing to all comers. In 2008, their preferred candidate lost to Ron Paul Republican Bob Conley. Conley lost the general election but ended up holding Lindsey Graham to less than 60 percent of the vote. I wrote about Conley’s campaign for the main site.
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Derek Leaberry| 6.11.10 @ 3:12PM
So far the pundits have been too cowardly in explaining Greene's win against former state legislator Vic Rawl. Rawl is white and Greene is black and blacks are now a majority of the Democratic base in South Carolina. South Carolina's blacks preferred a black unknown to the more experienced, yet obscure, white former legislator.
Liberty Jane | 6.11.10 @ 10:18PM
Mr. Antle III,
It wasn't a library computer screen, btw. Greene, who was over 30, was in a restricted (card access) freshman women's dormitory. He was in the computer room in the basement. He'd been told to leave before!
He wasn't attending college there. He was just sneaking on campus for nefarious purposes. Scary, really. If an over 30-something guy had been in my dorm looking at porn and propositioning me I would have certainly called the authorities.
See video here. The key point is at the end.
http://hotair.com/archives/201.....s-accuser/
Gazinya| 6.12.10 @ 1:30PM
I would think that the Dems would be electrified that this is happening, even in South Carolina. Mr. Greene is the first Democrat that can claim that he is simply "riding the coattails" of The Obama. Nobody knows who he is or what his past is and hasn't said anything of value and the Dems have overwhelmingly voted him to be the representitive of all the Dems in the Senate. Mr. Greene has a mandate, it is a landslide and it should put a cork in the conservatives momentum. We have a Senate full of Mr. Greene types. It will be so.........progressive.
Oldefarte| 6.13.10 @ 10:57AM
Greene is just a stupid Obama, and the joke/question becomes what MORONS voted for his/their nomination/election!!!!!!!
Nelson H.| 6.13.10 @ 11:16AM
I really have to object to your calling Greene stupid, Oldefarte. Unqualified, risible, dubious, sure. But think about it: would Greene come up with a health care fiasco of such magnitude? Would Greene wreck our foreign policy so comprehensively? Would Greene exacerbate deficits to the point where we will have no choice but to declare a Debt Jubilee? No, a thousand times no. Sometimes the nation is lucky and gets an active and benevolent executive. Sometimes it gets an indolent and worthless executive, as it would have under someone like Greene. And sometimes, like now, it gets an active and profoundly malign executive. Given the ways are going I would suggest we cook up a Greene Presidential Exploratory Committee.
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