Just wild speculation here; nothing more.
Heard on the news that some Dems suspected Al of being a Republican “Plant” somehow wangled into winning in order to put up an eminently beatable candidate for the opposition...
Oh!; Wait!....;
...Sort of like what the Dems have been doing by registering as Republicans prior to or at (they can do that here in Maine) in order to plant weak ‘Pubbie Nominees into elections so that they can switch back to being Democrats prior to the generals and whip them handily with a not quite so sorry (or so they might convince the sheeple) Dem Candidate.
Works like a charm nearly every time it’s tried, as near as I can tell.
At the worst for them they “lose” and get a milquetoast “RINO” like Snowe, Collins, or (alas) Scott Brown instead who they can usually bring to heel when needed to advance their socialist agenda.
The name “John McCain” comes to mind, for instance...
Now I would never accuse the honorable GOP of turning a nasty Commucratic trick back on them like Rush Limbaugh tried to do with “Operation Chaos”... oh no!
But would a band of TEA PARTY underground insurgent political guerrillas be above it, assuming that they had the numbers to pull it off?
Hmmmmm...... (heh, heh...) };^{D~
Even if the dems had put up a better candidate, it isn’t as if anyone was going to beat Jim DeMint, anyway.