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When the schadenfreude-licious Alvin Greene won the Democrat nomination for senate in South Carolina, the ever delusional Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) accused Republicans of funding Alvin Greene as a “plant” to ensure Senator Jim DeMint’s reelection. Yes, that Jim DeMint. The one who would clearly and soundly trounce any Democrat opponent without trickery of any sort by relying on his policy ideas and sound judgment. Said Clyburn: The motive could very well be to embarrass the Democratic party. This could be embarrassing if we do not get it worked out. Or this could be someone who wanted to ensure a...

MANNING, S.C. – Alvin Greene earned the nickname "turtle" in high school — a quiet, withdrawn boy who was smart when he applied himself but rarely took a chance and tried to put himself in comfortable situations. Nearly four weeks ago, the 32-year-old unemployed military veteran turned South Carolina's political scene upside down when he won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat. And unlike that high school student, he's taking a big chance: running against powerhouse Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. He is remembered as painfully shy by those who knew him in high school...

South Carolina Democrats' latest attempt to undermine their own primary winner has fizzled before it ever really got going. Just a week after 32 year old, unemployed and politically unknown Alvin Greene won the party's nomination to challenge incumbent Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) in November; supporters of Democrat Linda Ketner began mounting an effort to get her name on the ballot as an Independent. Today that effort ended.

DeMint: "It's unacceptable, careless comment obviously and it's inaccurate"...DeMint would not say whether or not he should resign..(Video)

Death by debt isn’t only a Greek tragedy, it’s downright common. Powerful nations all the way from Rome to Russia have killed their economies by spending more than they had. And, if the American people don’t stage an intervention soon, the United States may do the same. The federal government will soon be paying more in interest on the national debt than we spend on national defense. The national debt represents 93% of our total gross domestic product (GDP) with foreign governments like China and private entities owning nearly half that debt. Surely, one of the world’s greatest debtors cannot...

A few days ago, former Utah Senate candidate Cherilyn Eager, the woman who claimed Tim Bridgewater offered to pay off her campaign debt in exchange for her endorsement then denied that was a bribe before - you know - endorsing Bridgewater, came onto RedState and attacked Jim DeMint. Eager claims that Jim DeMint and Mike Lee are both affiliated with some energy company I’ve never heard of and DeMint denies it. Best I can tell, the attack is as crazy as Cherilyn Eager is. However, concurrent to Eager attacking Jim DeMint on RedState, Tim Bridgewater’s campaign has been using the...

Politics: The Democratic Senate candidate from South Carolina is not a GOP dirty trick but an appropriate representative of a party detached from reality. An incoherent and off-the-wall empty suit, he is a perfect fit. Late Thursday night, the South Carolina Democratic Party's Executive Committee rejected a protest of the June 8 primary for U.S. Senate, in which Alvin Greene, who has a felony arrest for showing porn to college girls, defeated Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge. Greene has been declared the party's legitimate nominee, much to the chagrin of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, whose leg no longer...

In the past year, Jim DeMint, South Carolina's junior senator, has transformed himself from right-wing outlier to the Senate’s leading tribune of Tea Party sentiment. His influence has expanded despite -- or perhaps because of -- his willingness to thumb his nose at Republican Party elders, a trait that only adds to the intrigue about his ultimate intentions. Does he hope to displace Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader in the Senate? Might he harbor even loftier -- that is to say, presidential -- ambitions? Or is he content to position himself as the most conservative senator in an increasingly conservative...

Since the South Carolina Democratic primary for the Senate took place earlier this month, it seemed like the only person not talking about Alvin Greene... was Alvin Greene. But Greene broke his silence to Time magazine reporter Michael Scherer in an interview released today. "I am the best candidate for the United States Senate in South Carolina," Greene told Scherer. "And I am also the best person to be Time magazine's Man of the Year." Greene also discussed what he hopes to accomplish in his campaign. He said that he wants to focus on three things: jobs, education and "justice...

Alvin Greene, the 32-year-old unemployed Army veteran currently living in his parents' basement and facing a felony obscenity charge will represent the Democratic party in South Carolina's senatorial election against incumbent Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina). There was some doubt after the political unknown won his party's primary last week, but a committee of state Democrats rejected a protest by primary loser, former state legislator and judge Vic Rawl clearing the way for Mr. Greene to move forward with his campaign.

Pledging to fight an "Internet takeover," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced on Thursday that he will introduce legislation to weaken the "activist bureaucracy" at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the agency moved toward boosting its authority over broadband service providers at a morning meeting. Blasting the FCC's decision as a "power grab," DeMint called for a neutered FCC govered by sun-sets on regulations and slowed by new standards for agency action. "Obama’s FCC is now changing the rules to takeover and tax the Internet," DeMint said, calling the commission's latest move an example "of government agencies overstepping their bounds...

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint has thrown his political operation into gear on behalf of Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle, bundling money for her and laying out cash through his PAC in the week after Angle won the GOP nomination to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. DeMint has already raised more than $60,000 for Angle and his Senate Conservatives Fund PAC has spent $54,680 in independent expenditures this week, largely to purchase an e-mail list for the campaign. DeMint, who has backed a number of conservative insurgents in Senate primaries, favored Angle and real estate developer Danny Tarkanian in...

Last Tuesday, 32-year-old army veteran Alvin Greene surprised everyone by handily winning the Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina. Since then, the mystery only deepens on how he could have won 60% of the Dem votes. Not only is Greene unemployed, living with his parents, and charged with showing obscene photos to a college co-ed, now we’re learning that he was a lousy soldier to boot. Adrian Chen of Gawker reports that “Having held no previous political office, Greene’s most relevant professional experience is his 13-year stint as a supply and intelligence specialist in the Army and Air Force. In...

Radio talk show host Mark Levin interviews US Senate candidate Alvin Greene (D-SC) about his campaign, his pornography scandal, if he is a GOP plant and what he hopes to achieve if elected Senator. The notable part of the interview occurs at the end, when Greene is unable to name his Republican opponent Jim DeMint. Greene gave a long pause and sounded like he was searching through talking points for DeMint's name.

He had no buttons, no posters, not even a campaign slogan. He never even ran an ad in his $10,400 bid for the U.S. Senate Democratic primary race in South Carolina and yet he claims that the 60% of the vote he got was certainly “not by chance”. That is the ONLY honest thing Alvin Greene has said publicly so far since his victory. In the electronic voting world of South Carolina, Alvin Greene certainly did not win “by chance” Alvin Greene claims he paid the $10,400 filing fee “out of his own pocket”; he’s been unemployed for 9 months...

Awaiting the podcast for this afternoon's interview with Fowler, head of the SC Democrat party. She said that she's asked Alvin Greene to withdraw from the US Senate race against Jim DeMint, and that Greene had not agreed to withdraw. Incidentally, a report is out that Greene has a felony porno charge pending but I haven't found the article just yet. Fowler talks about it, though. Until Fowler's interview is up, listen to Alvin Greene on a radio interview last night. Alvin Greene stumbles

An unemployed 32-year-old black Army veteran with no campaign funds, no signs, and no website shocked South Carolina on Tuesday night by winning the Democratic Senate primary to oppose Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). Alvin Greene, who currently lives in his family's home, defeated Vic Rawl, a former judge and state legislator who had a $186,000 campaign warchest and had already planned his next fundraising event. Despite the odds, Greene, who has been unemployed for the past nine months, said that he wasn't surprised by his victory. "I wasn’t surprised, but not really. I mean, just a little, but not much....

Dave Weigel called Alvin Greene the “the kind of opponent candidates dream about,” but he didn’t know the half of it. Jim Geraghty noted that the new Democratic nominee to run against conservative stalwart Sen. Jim DeMint in South Carolina hadn’t filed any paperwork with the FEC on fundraising, but perhaps he just didn’t want to get in any more trouble with the law than Greene already faces. The Democratic nominee isn’t just “wholly unserious” — the AP reports that he’s been charged with a felony obscenity offense that could get him five years in prison: South Carolina’s surprise Democratic...

Last night's victory in South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary has placed candidate Alvin Greene, at least momentarily, in the national spotlight. What sets Mr. Greene apart from the hundreds of other candidates in the November mid-term elections? The fact that, until last night, virtually no one had even heard of him.

An unemployed military veteran who raised no funds and put up no campaign website shocked South Carolina's Democratic Party leadership by capturing the nomination Tuesday to face Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in November. With nearly all precincts reporting, Alvin Greene, 32, commanded 59 percent of the vote against 41 percent for former four-term state lawmaker Vic Rawl, 64, who had raised about $186,000 and had to abruptly scrap a late-week fundraiser for the fall. State Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler said voters unfamiliar with either candidate may have voted alphabetically for Greene over Rawl.