Posted on 06/21/2010 11:42:07 AM PDT by jwalburg
In South Carolina, the pundits are stumped. A much-favored candidate somehow was trumped by a little-known upstart without a campaign. How could this happen? Please, someone, explain.
This outcome does not fit the experts' deep studies. The winner should come from their small pool of buddies. How could some loner have suddenly won? How could a common guy even have run?
Someone named Alvin? No doting supporters? Surely he's in someone's power, taking orders.
The election results are a brain-busting mystery. This outcome, the strangest in all voting history.
Were South Carolinian voters all crazy? Did they not read the papers? Were they all simply lazy?
Did they not know their winner was lately arrested for lurking on campus - a student attested - and prowling the college with porn in his hand? Did they know in the polling booth? Was this all planned?
He was discharged from service and living with Mom; unemployed, almost broke, though he smiled with aplomb.
The pundits ask how this man found cash for filing, and how he could win in a landslide - by smiling?
No radio spots or thick, glossy fliers. No referring to worthy opponents as liars. No autodial, robocall, suppertime pitches. No impossible promises, no piles of riches.
No thousand-dollar-a-plate fettuccini. No “Photoshopped” rival in skimpy bikini. No basso-voiced, somber-toned, droning buffoon, complaining above stately patriot tune, implying the other guy hates kids and pets.
No sighing while posturing next to sick vets. No factory visits in hardhat and Dickies.
No shaking his finger at felons and sickies. Or vowing to save baby seals from heat, or glaciers from making their hasty retreat.
No clever retort on the six o'clock news. No jeans and plaid shirt worn with highest end shoes.
No handlers, no botox, no teleprompt magic. No putting on funny; no trying on tragic.
No shaking hands - grinning - and working the crowd. No bragging at exploits and saying he's proud to be an American (because if he's not, he's got no business even claiming the spot on the ballot: fit, handsome or hot). There's no hope in saying you're proud if you're not.
No “Look to the future,” “Together we can ... ” No comparing our test scores to those from Japan. No “I'll make a difference,” no “Change!” No “I'll fight for your family, your paycheck, your mortgage, your right.”
No hiring consultants to choose the red tie. No mealy-mouthed radio interview guy.
No Facebook or Twitter or website domain. No unemployed factory workers in pain, to drag on a talk show to highlight compassion, while wearing the latest in Hugo Boss fashion.
Greene might be a patsy; he might be sincere. He might have been planning this victory all year. He might be a shirker, a college dorm lurker, an unemployed worker; it's somewhat unclear.
He might be a plant from a sinister plot. He might be the real McCoy - or might not.
The voters have spoken, or else the machine. The voters have chosen the unknown Al Greene. How could it happen, the pundits all scream, that someone could win who did not have a dream?
No hope and no plan, no real campaign? No polish, pizzazz or political brain?
It's easy - O experts, whose teachers have taught you!
It wasn't what Greene did, but what he did not do.
shouldn’t be that big of a surprise.....he is black...s.c. has a large black population....vote for the brotha....
It helped that he had the same name as Al Greene.
He may be able to revitalize the Gulf region by proposing a bill to promote shirmping and his own line of Bubba Greene shrimp.
Maybe they’d like to explain Kesha Rogers democrat primary win in Texas. A black female democrat wins the primary on the promise that she’ll seek Obama’s impeachment.
The way the article appeared in the posting, I thought it was a poem. Didn’t seem to rhyme though...
No advertising, nobody had a clue what color he was.
The simplest explanation is the best, they simply voted for him because his name was at the top of the list.
if you believe that i have a bridge for sale....
Green is by far the most intelligent Democrat in the country! :)
Really. No surprise at all. All the black Dems voted for the black candidate...
There was practically ZERO info out there on most of the candidates except for Governor.
How the heck is someone going to vote for the black guy when there is not one single campaign ad, TV spot, or Radio ad? THERE WERE NOT EVEN ANY CAMPAIGN SIGNS.
I consider myself a very informed voter and I couldn't have told you what color the guy was. If it was the plain old racism that makes blacks vote for blacks, I wouldn't deny it at all. The evidence is overwhelming, in general. But in this case, the bar was set even lower than that.
“Were South Carolinian voters all crazy?”
Someone is a little confused. It ain’t all South Carolina voters. Greene was a Democrat. Don’t include me cause I didn’t vote for him and 412.568 South Carolinians that voted for the Republicans didn’t either.
Were the 66 million voters nation wide that voted for Obama all crazy too? They voted for the most incompetent US President to hold office!
Democrats should start thinking about how many votes Greene will get in November because the Democratic Party of South Carolina after all day deliberation and secret vote said he was their man!
I have a nightmare:
Alvin Greene looks directly into the TV camera and says:
Hello, Ah’m Alvin Greene.
A lot of smart people have interviewed me...asked me a lot of questions.
Did I have a campaign director?
Did I actively campaign?
How much money did I spend campaigning?
And on and on.
I answered with simple yesses and nos. I like to think over what I say before I say it.
They think I’m a moron and scratch their heads wondering how I won the primary.
Because I’m so dumb they didn’t ask me was why I won the primary.
But I will tell you why I won. I won because a lot of the people of South Carolina are without jobs; as I am. A lot of them are hurting pretty bad. And, they are sick and tired of smooth-talking lying lawyers who’ve climbed up the party ladder on the backs of those under them while kissing the behinds of those above them...lying politicians who have promised them everything while their lives grows harder... politicians that called them at dinnertime the night before the election with a recorded message. They wonder why Rawl didn’t win.
The people of South Carolina are tired of rich professional politician that represent themselves, special interests, and a big political machine. They want someone like themselves who understands them; who may not be all that sharp or glib, but truely represents them.
Mr. Rawl didn’t have a chance in Hell of beating Mr. Demint; but I just may.
Yes, and a Laroushite.
Some said they thought the voters may have confused him with musician Al Green.
Makes sense to me
Missed your comment the first time around. I’ve heard this theory. Do you really think this is possible? So many voters confusing a name with someone else’s? Has it ever happened before? Possible, but is it likely?
That's another good explanation. There literally was no information available about this guy. I could at least get info from a website of a candidate who may not have had funds for ads and spots. This guy didn't even have that. It's a better explanation than the "blacks vote for blacks". I would give that reasoning it's place if there had been one single TV ad or flyer featuring Mr. Greene.
It all boils down to 1)they didn't know who was running and 2) they didn't care.
This is the Democrat electorate in SC.
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