Alvin Green wins nomination thanks to The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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Democrats have decided that Alvin Greene’s surprise victory in the South Carolina Democratic senatorial primary must be the result of a Republican dirty trick.
Greene beat Vic Rawl, a former state representative and judge, with a whopping 60 percent of the vote in last Tuesday’s primary, despite Greene’s having no job, no house, no campaign website, no campaign headquarters — indeed, no campaign.
But he does have one thing Rawl doesn’t have: In the grand tradition of legendary Democrats such as Teddy Kennedy, Greene has a felony arrest.
So this is not good for the Democrats.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., has demanded that the U.S. attorney investigate, ominously suggesting that Greene may be a Republican plant.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann interviewed Greene as if he had Lee Harvey Oswald in the dock.
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Greene was not a “legitimate” candidate and called his victory “a mysterious deal.”
They’re hopping mad, these liberals, but it’s not clear what their theory of the crime is.
The key to Greene’s victory, you see, is that he got more votes.
There is zero possibility that Republicans skipped their own primary to vote for Greene in the Democratic primary.
Even Sarah Palin got involved in the race, endorsing Nikki Haley (though not endorsing anyone in the Nevada primary, as I incorrectly gave her credit for in last week’s column).
Not surprisingly, more than twice as many South Carolinians voted in the Republican primary (424,893) as voted in the Democratic primary (197,380).
Perhaps realizing this, liberal loons (Keith Olbermann) are now pushing the theory that Republicans somehow … rigged the voting machines!
I promise you, if Republicans could have rigged any voting machines, they would have made sure Nikki Haley won by 51 percent, instead of 49 percent, to avoid next week’s runoff.
The only thing a Republican could possibly have done is pay Greene’s filing fee.
But anyone could have paid it — ACORN, a community organizer, a stimulus grantor, Betty White. If a Republican paid the $10,000 filing fee, why not give Greene another hundred bucks for a campaign website?
But, for the sake of argument, let’s say a Republican paid Greene’s filing fee.
As in the South Carolina race, the serious candidate, McMullen, spent far more than the prank candidate — by about $300,000 to $200.
And as with Greene, Tuttle was a feeble-minded everyman. He had starred in a movie, “Man With a Plan,” made by his Harvard-graduate neighbor, about a cornball farmer who runs for Congress.
Fred won the primary and promptly endorsed Leahy.
The media lavished praise on the “gentlemanly” Senate race, with The Associated Press calling it a “calm, folksy Senate campaign.”
The movie starring Fred was run on PBS, sponsored by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and Fred — the winsome simpleton — was fawned over throughout the media.
That’s a far cry from how reporters are treating poor Alvin Greene:
CNN anchor Don Lemon: You’re mentally sound, physically sound?
Greene: No. Just — I’m OK.
Lemon: No, just what?
Greene: I’m OK.
Lemon: Quite honestly, you don’t sound OK.
Greene: No.
I suppose you could say the Republican primary in Vermont was irrelevant anyway since Sen. Leahy was a shoo-in for re-election.
But so is Jim DeMint, Alvin Greene’s current opponent. Leahy won his prior election, in 1992, 54.2 percent to 43.3 percent.
And Alvin Greene is clearly more qualified to be a senator than Patrick Leahy.
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