Posted on 06/14/2010 2:27:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s probably safe to say that South Carolina Senate Dem primary winner Alvin Greene will not be hearing from anonymous senior administration officials out to offer him a cushy job in exchange for him dropping out of the race. Instead, I imagine the White House (and many others) are hoping the press will do their dirty work and solve the strange mystery of how Greene — a totally unfunded, unknown — won the SC primary last week.
When asked this morning on Meet the Press whether he thought Greene was a “legitimate candidate” David Axelrod did not pull many punches.
It’s doesn’t appear so to me. It’s a mysterious deal, he didn’t campaign, the whole thing is odd, and I don’t really know how to explain it. I don’t think anyone else does either….I think the Democrats of South Carolina deserve a strong, credible candidate, and I guess he would argue he won 60% of the primary so that would be him. How he won the primary is a big mystery though, and until you resolve that I don’t think he can claim to be a strong, credible candidate.
Um, yes. Maybe Greene will turn out to be the real life political version of a fake Twitter account and when the fun dies down someone will appear to take responsibility. Watch below.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
There is no doubt of his origin, That guy is black.
There are, of course, any number of plausible reasons for Mr. Greene's nomination victory, and all of them point to a sclerotic Party structure. It seems a lot like 1972, after McGovern got the presidential nomination.
Interesting, perhaps. Considered one of two or three "positive" outcomes for the Democrats in 1972 was the election of Joseph Biden to the Senate, against the national tide. Perhaps his fortunes are on the rise, once again.
These Dems remind me of the folks wandering below the water line in Western Thailand, just before the Tsunami.
This fellow Greene just might have had the money to file for the office, and he appears to be immune from any of the standard inducements to drop out, which unfortunately leaves violence.
What a grand opportunity for a free education for field hand and house slave alike, on the Democrat Plantation. I think they must have been the only folks to have cast Democrat ballots in this Primary.
Imagine how the Dims would howl if this were the Republicans trying to throw out a lawfully elected candidate for US Senate! Jeez, it'd be wall to wall media coverage!
Dave, there’s an election certificate that says otherwise.
Aside from that, Dave, did anybody on your side worry about whether that poor old farmer your party saddled the Republicans with when he ran for Senate was “legitimate”? Or about whether saddling the Republicans with David Duke against Edwin Edwards was “legitimate”? I must have missed it.
I personally don’t think Greene is a plant. I don’t see the South Carolina Republican organization as that clever right now. But if they did, your party is in a particularly bad position to complain.
no violence needed, he will be backed by the dems, and vote as he is paid. win/win.
Ew, David, who exactly is Barry Soetoro?
Here’s how one of my wife’s liberal friends on facebook tried to summarize Greene’s election:
“classic. they are trying to paint him as a republican plant. like the republicans are smart enough to think of that, or organized enough to actually pull it off!!! Lol!”
Sigh.
The democrats demonstrate YET AGAIN that they should probably have their voter registration cards confiscated and somehow this libtard turns it into an opportunity to insult the intelligence of REPUBLICANS.
Classic.
Anyway, the idea that this guy is a republican plant is ludicrous - Demint is safe. There is no need for anyone to pull dirty tricks. Moreover, which republicans were going to give up their primary gubernatorial vote in order to disrupt a safe senate election...?
Finally, this election is no different that Obama. An inexperienced black man wins simply because the democrats have no idea what they are voter for.
Typical democrat, socialist, communist voters don’t know what they want attitude. Alvin is not one of them, therefore is not legit.
Why? Doesn’t he have a birth certificate?
To be fair, this would be a lot of conservatives' take on the situation as well. Not many people, regardless of political philosophy, hold much stock in the competence of the Republican party.
Hey Alvin, flash them your birth certificate and tell them that you may be running for POTUS next since you actually have something that the current occupier of that office doesn’t have.
My guess-—70% of Democrats are illegitimate.
Greene plays the race card!
State Rep. Todd Rutherford told Fox News that he went to Greene’s house to discuss with him how Greene succeeded last week in becoming the candidate to challenge Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in the November election, but he found it difficult to decipher an answer.
“About two questions into a conversation with him, it would become apparent that he is not probably fit to answer the questions befitting a Senate candidate,” said Rutherford, a Democrat.
“If he was put into this, then it is a joke that is funny to all the rest of us, but he doesn’t get it — because I don’t know that his mental status is such that he can get it.
“On Friday South Carolina authorities launched a formal investigation into Greene’s unlikely win.
The campaign of his vanquished opponent, Vic Rawl, said it too is looking into reports across the state from voters and poll workers who “experienced problems with voting for whom they intended.
“A Rawl campaign spokesman said he believes that the outcome of Tuesday’s election is “statistically impossible” and “South Carolinians would rather be 100 percent right than 90 percent uncertain.”
Greene won with about 60 percent of the vote.Rutherford said he asked Greene whether his honorable but involuntary discharge from the U.S. Army last August was related to his mental state.
“When I asked him whether they had checked his mental health status, he seemed to suggest that doing so brought about racist implications and other things. He kind of ducked the issue,” said Rutherford.
Greene happens to be the wrong type of blackman, eh, David, i.e., not “down with the struggle?”
Somebody needs to demand of this communist, why a black man who has served the USA in the armed forces, and probably has a birth certificate to boot, is “less qualified” for public service than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Could it be because his nomination reflects the will of the people...as opposed to....whichever nation/corporate interests the current Congress represents?!!
Someone pushed the wrong button on the demonrat vote fixing machine. (Karl, is that you?)
Granted I have no great faith in GOP leadership nowadays, but Demint in a shoo-in - why would the GOP even NEED to think of planting Greene?
It’s just nonsense.
The thread starter on facebook also ticked me off. Her post said something like “Oh, SC - it’s a good thing you are pretty, because you sure do some stupid stuff.” The implication was that she lives in a backwards, redneck state.
The truth is that SC had nothing to do with Greene. SC will elect Demint, demonstrating its brilliance (heh). The democrats who voted in the primary are solely responsible for Greene, but she still does her best to pin Greene’s primary win as a result of the foolish rednecks in SC.
To the back of the bus ALVIN.
Did he get the most votes just because he is Black? (I think so)
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