Posted on 06/11/2010 3:28:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Congressman James Clyburn thinks that Greene, the unlikely victor in a South Carolina Democrat primary, was paid to run for office. Could it be true?
The incredulity over Alvin Greene's surprise win in the Democrat primary for South Carolina's Senate seat shows no sign of abating. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D—SC) openly accused the unprepossessing 32-year-old, who won without holding a single campaign event, of being a political pawn: "There were some real shenanigans going on," Clyburn told a radio talk show. "I don't know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone's plant." Greene has denied this, saying his victory was due to "word of mouth." Could there be any truth to Clyburn's allegations? (Watch Keith Olbermann drill Alvin Greene about his past)
This is a set-up engineered by those good ol' SC boys: Greene's victory means "only one thing," says Devona Walker at AlterNet. "Someone rigged the Democratic primaries down in Dixieland." The "good old boys" in South Carolina proved they were willing to stoop to dirty tricks with the ugly Nikki Haley affair. "I'm just wondering how long it will take for Greene to crack under the pressure."
"The curious case of Alvin Greene"
Why would anyone run a plant against sure-thing Jim DeMint? The idea of the "plain-spoken" Greene being a plant raises more questions than answers, says Allahpundit at Hot Air. For one, Republican Jim DeMint is a "mortal lock to be re-elected" in South Carolina, so why would you "risk all the bad publicity and possible criminal repercussions" of rigging the election?
"Another trainwreck: Olbermann interviews 'America's candidate'"
Wouldn't you choose a more convincing plant? Even if you did want to run a plant against DeMint, says Jim Geraghty at the National Review, would you really "entrust Alvin Greene" — accused of a felony and hardly media friendly — to pull off a "grand conspiracy"? For that matter, "would you trust Alvin Greene to water your plants while you're away?"
"It's not easy being Greene, but apparently he wins easily"
We're inventing conspiracies to explain his behavior: Judging from his extraordinarily vague interviews with the media, says Adrian Chen at Gawker, "there seems to be literally nothing to Alvin Greene." Maybe we're trying to fill in that well of "nothingness" with "our own conspiracy theories," when the only truth behind Greene's candidacy is he's "just some random dude" who accidentally won a Democrat primary.
"Mystery SC candidate's bizarre Keith Olbermann interview"
No matter what the underlying cause, this has got to be the funniest thing to happen this election year. Comedy gold.
You’re right, the GOP should immediately refute the Clyburn assertions rather than let him have the last word on it at the end of this weeks news cycle grrr.
I wish the GOP was this clever, can you imagine the possibilities?
The Republicans are simply not that politically clever.
For this to be true, you have to believe that Republicans didn’t vote in their own primary but opted instead to vote in the democrat primary.
Plants don’t win 59-41. They also tend not to perform well when the other party has a hotly contested primary.
The GOP don't have a single Machiavellian neuron among them.
“Wouldn’t you choose a more convincing plant? Even if you did want to run a plant against DeMint, says Jim Geraghty at the National Review, would you really ‘entrust Alvin Greene’ — accused of a felony and hardly media friendly — to pull off a ‘grand conspiracy’?”
Reminds me of the Lee Harvey Oswald/Jack Ruby situation. If you were going to have people shoot both the president and the person who shot the president, these two boobs would be the absolute last ones you’d choose. Yet, somehow, their very boobishness suggests conspiracy to some. Just like this candidates boobishness suggests “plant” to angry Democrats. Suggests the opposite to me.
Plus, since when was winning a primary via subterfuge as easy as throwing a name in the hat? How could Republicans been convinced of a victory even if they had chosen someone competent. Or someone who actually, you know, campaigns.
This I do believe. Somebody or some organization is behind this, pulling the strings. And, honestly, I think it's hilarious because the votes Greene received were legitimate!
He must be a plant or the result of poor vetting by the Democrats. True Democrat politicians are undetectable felons.
My theory is he was a Democrat plant/pawn. He had no idea he was going to win and does not know how he won. They paid for him to run then rigged the ballot boxes to test to see exactly how to handle the media and deflect an investigation into the voter fraud. This was a practice test for the big fix in November.
This is the only thing that really makes sense to me.
The idea that primary voters (even dems) went to the polls then just spontaneously decided to vote for someone they did not even know is simply not plausible to me.
I don’t think the DNC knows where South Carolina is. Probably somewhere south of North Carolina.
I don’t think Greene is an ideal senate candidate, but I think the reaction to his winning the primary exposes sort of an elitist attitude regarding who gets to run. He won the primary and now they want him to leave — forget what the voters say, they must be stupid or wrong. Maybe they are, but maybe they are just Democrats.
To be honest, I’m seeing a similar problem in the House race for the NY-29 seat. There are three republican candidates and at least one of them is just an average guy and he’s going through the deep hot place and back just to get on the ballot for our primary in September. The establishment candidate is a phony baloney mascarading as a conservative, and I do not want him but the party is foisting him on us. When it comes down to it, they do not care what we want and aren’t even willing to give us a choice. To me that is just wrong.
Seems to me that the democrats should have worried about whether he was a plant before the primary rather than after.
Its also possible that they were just fine with him till the pending felony charges came up.
Either way they look like real idiots.
I’m sitting here in my home in Greer, SC...laughing my butt off about this! This is hysterically funny. Yet still, the big question...just who is Alvin Greene? LOL! Way too funny!
Anyone know if this election was conducted with normal electronic voting machines?
If someone or some group wanted to fix an election or group of elections by rigging electronic machines, would it not be wise to test the system in an inconsequential primary?
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