Bob Kelleher ran for many offices in his 80 some odd years (emphasis on odd) he was a liberal candidate, a libertarian, he ran as a green party candidate and somehow he became our GOP candidate in 2008 to run against Max "Obamacare" Baucus.
The guy is a kook ( http://www.bobkelleher2008.com/ ) and wanted to change our government to a European style Parliament --- was he planted or were we victims of a reverse form of "Operation Chaos"?
Who knows, but in case anyone has forgotten the point that the dems only needed one more senator for the majority and he won the GOP primary in 2008 and the rest is history so South Carolina dems needs to get over it and just support their guy.
Alaska had a guy named Vic Vickers in 2008. Moved up from Florida in January, where he had been a lifelong registered democrat, and registered here as a republican. Declarers in the republican primary and proceeds to run months of attack ads against Ted Stevens worth millions, supposedly all funded by his personal fortune. Loses the primary and immediately disappears from public view. Lots of folks, myself included, are pretty certain Vickers was a dem plant.