Posted on 11/03/2010 6:37:30 PM PDT by WebFocus
Via Breitbart, the year’s most surreal campaign ends with an appropriately surreal ballroom event. I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, was there no one in his personal orbit or the Democratic state leadership who could have averted a spectacle by talking him into staying home last night? Something along the lines of “Let’s show the voters that we feel their pain by not holding any big events”? Why send him out to run the media gauntlet?
On the other hand, he does seem to be having fun. From a Times piece published last weekend about Greene’s trip to a local fair:
For three hours, Mr. Greene, 33, did just about everything at the fair except attend to the task at hand. As South Carolina’s unlikely Democratic nominee for the Senate, he was supposed to introduce himself, shake hands and ask for votes. It was, after all, just days before the election, and he had scheduled so few outings…
“I am living my dream,” he said, gazing at the twirling neon rides from beneath the brim of his green Atlanta Braves cap. The lesson of his candidacy, he said, is that “even if you are from rural South Carolina, you can be internationally famous.”…
Nearby, a booth with a sign for the county’s Democratic Party was empty. It had no other signs, or any brochures or visitors.
“Do you believe this?” Mr. Greene asked in both astonishment and delight, as if he had simultaneously discovered a crime and solved it. “This is a dereliction of duty!”
If he’s that hung up about being treated as a serious candidate, then … yeah, maybe there wasn’t a way to talk him out of last night. Maybe the best thing to do for him was to let him go, revel in the media attention — mocking though it was — and enjoy the trappings of a major campaign event in his honor. Look at it this way: The more attention he gets, the likelier it is that he’ll get offers allowing him to cash in on this debacle somehow. How sweet would it be to see Greene get a big payday for his story and be set up for life? Here’s hoping.
By the way: He banked 358,000 votes last night.
358,000 votes are all braindead idiots.
Mr Greene should have blown whatever remained in his campaign account at the local t*tty bar and called it a teachable moment.
RE: 358,000 votes are all braindead idiots.
Maybe he has many relatives in South Carolina :)
In NY State, even the RENT-IS-TOO-DAMN-HIGH party got 1% of the vote.
You can bet that every one of those 358,000 morons also voted for Barry Soetoro in 2008. You can’t fix stupid.
You realize he paid about $0.03 cents per vote, Carly about $25 bucks a vote. He got his money’s worth.
The media focused on O’Donnell too much, and treated this guy like an amiable oddity because it didn’t fit their agenda.
Why it should have been THIS campaign that raised their hackles is clear from the “I’m famous” quote.
A more cutting indictment of how fame has become the ultimate prize in this culture I haven’t seen. But hey, it’s just using a political office to get free food, what’s the big deal?
Today is Jim Robinsons’ birthday..If you haven’t donated to FR, today would be a good day to give.
Wow...Thank GOD South Carolina has Jim DeMint! This guy would have been the worst Senator ever.... I can’t imagine him doing anything more than being a rubber stamp for Harry Reid if he got put into office.
Besides the fact that he could hardly put a sentence together...he seemed more interested in eating a sandwich and showing off his comic book than campaigning.
If he had been elected he might have taken the title of “Least Qualified” from Obama...although I do give Greene props for being in the Military.
Imagine if 60% of the vote was like that. Just imagine that for a second. You'd be in Massachusetts.
don’t forget the idiots in California and Nevada and more than likely Alaska and Washington State.
“In NY State, even the RENT-IS-TOO-DAMN-HIGH party got 1% of the vote.”
I thought that guy had the clearest vision of all of them over there. NY needs to sail away.
Yeah, but at least that guy was amusing. Greene is just pathetically sad.
I am starting to re-examine my position on forced sterilization.
lol
Or New York :(
I wonder what’s wrong with Alvin Greene?
Alvin just has a large extended family.
Braindead Idiots = Racist blacks that openly seek tyranny as a means of turning the tables.
Bottom line, they want whites to fall under massa’s evil hand and they don’t care what that means ultimately for them.
That is LOL funny Bigbob
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