Watching Alvin Greene is breaking my heart

[Empowerer]

Someone put this poor man up and is making a complete fool of him and he doesn't seem to even understand what's going on or how he's being used. It's painful to watch.

[likesmountains 52]

1. My sentiments exactly...somewhere there is a real asshole laughing at his "joke".

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Careful now.....

You wouldn't want to be accused of "advocating for the defeat of the Democratic party nominee in the General Election" ;)

[Donnachaidh]

20. how can he come up with 10K filing fee and then need a public defender?

This surely stinks to high heaven - with undertones of DeMint, if you catch my drift.

[Jennicut]

He also harassed a young woman at a college. I can't feel too sorry for the guy.

[Clio the Leo]

5. lol .... he doesn't exactly come across as a sexual predator...

... if he did was he's accused of ... I think it was done out of childish ignorance.

[flyarm]

19. what exxactly is the profile for a Sexual predator?is there one? eom

[napi21]

10. Careful what you read & hear at first blush. I've heard 2 diff. stories

so far. One was that he showed a fellow student a pornographic picture on the net whie in the student lab. Remember "pornographic" is detemined by the viewer! What I might see as porn you might see as risque'. The other story was that he entered a womans apt. without permission. Roght now, I'm reserving my opinion

This is SC! Wen I lived there, (1987-1992) Bob Jones University demanded ALL women wear skirts 4" below the knww and absolutely NO slackspants, and all men ad to wear a shirt & tie when on campus. Relationships between blacks & whites was forbidden. You would be surprised what this crowd considers porn!

Please,lets wait until we hear the real story.

[Alcibiades]

18. That's Bob Jones

They are special. Most South Carolinians are no more prudish than anyone else.

I suspect that it must have been pretty bad for there to have been charges. Most teenaged girls today are not particularly shocked by porn.

[Jamastiene]

13. Allegedly as of right now...

but, if he did do it, I don't feel sorry for him either.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Yep, it is. NT

[katandmoon]

4. So how did such an unqualified, unknown candidate get any votes?

[Clio the Leo]

6. several theories here...

http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861006100935349

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Well one thing is obvious

...that kitteh is clearly up to something! :evilgrin:

[Clio the Leo]

16. ha! nt

[Snarkoleptic]

7. With a little help from DeBold and the operation chaos crowd.

[katandmoon]

11. The DSCC didn't notice this guy was on the ballot?

[Atman]

12. Open primary. Repubs could vote Dem.

That's the basis of the plant theory. Republicans found a dupe and got the word out to vote for him and thus derail the Dems and ensure DeMint's reelection.

[4lbs]

15. Except that 97% of the registered Republicans in that state that voted, voted for a Republican.

So, unless tens of thousands of Republicans switched to independent or something, they couldn't have done this.

What one needs to ask is why only 86% of Democrats voted for one of the two Democrats for U.S. Senate in the S.C. Primary. 1 out of 7 Democrats that voted on Tuesday, didn't vote for US Senate.

[karynnj]

27. The one out of seven might have done that because they did not know who either were

You can say that they should have prepared by getting information on both, but given they didn't it is better than randomly voting. So - why did they go to vote? They might have had a local candidate they were interested in.

I remember one year, when I did not vote for anyone in the House election because I didn't know anything about either man competing to be that year's sacrificial lamb. It was better than blindly voting for one or the other. (As it seems many did in this election.)

[Jamastiene]

14. Two words: South Carolina n/t

[vanlassie]

8. It was a Republican who set this guy up, right? It's been done there before...

according to a guy interviewed on NPR today.

[jillan]

17. There's a story here. And I agree with you, it was painful to watch. I kept thinking

why doesn't Clyburn meet with him privately instead of having him make a fool out of himself on national tv?

[golfguru]

21. This was entirely the fault of LOCAL Democratic officials

They were asleep at the switch. There was not one word
about this Greene dude in any media prior to the election.
And his opponent (who lost) must be pretty inept for not
exposing this dude.

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. I felt sorry for him as well. However, it's South Carolina, and there wasn't

a chance in hell that we would take this seat away from Demint. I do hope there's an investigation though. I'd like to know where he got the filing fee.

[rasputin1952]

23. I saw him on Countdown last night..,

i could tell that Olberman was feeling pretty bad about the "interview"...and Greene was completely out of his element. When he said he used, "his own funds" for the filing fee, the obvious question is, "why are you homeless if you can come up w/$10,000+?", and that question was just passed over.

This is a GOP ploy, even when they have an election sewn up, as in the case of DeMint, they still have to find a way to cheat...I'm wondering if it is genetic with these clowns.

[lunatica]

24. I don't feel sorry for him at all

He's a thug. He's a known pornography pushing felon.

[polichick]

25. I feel sorry for those South Carolinians who actually think and do their homework...

Hard to live in a sea of imbeciles who elect the fools who represent that state.

[blm]

26. I agree

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[The Backlash Cometh]

28. But it's necessary to expose

Because it happens far too often.

[Imajika]

29. Why feel sorry for him? He made an excellent investment...

He dropped 10k and went from a nobody to a national name. He's on TV all the time now. In today's society, getting your face on TV is the ticket to getting a reality TV show, becoming a spokesman for some product, giving commentary on current events. I'd expect Greene to drag this thing out as long and as far as possible.

This was an excellent investment for him. Probably the best 10k he ever spent.

I don't feel sorry for him one bit. I actually think it was pretty clever move.

Sadly, it is a pretty big embarrassment to South Carolina Democrats and for the SC Democratic Party. Really just shows we had no serious contender to put up against DeMint which is quite pathetic.