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ALVIN
GREENE: THE MOST QUALIFIED DEMOCRAT I'VE EVER SEEN
By Ann
Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
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. Other
than paying the $10,000 filing fee, Greene seems to have put no effort into
the race whatsoever.
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. (Greene's inexperience really shows here: Democrats
usually wait until after they're elected to show pornography to college
girls.)
So this is not good for the Democrats. Naturally, therefore,
they're blaming Republicans.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., has
demanded that the U.S. attorney investigate, ominously suggesting that
Greene may be a Republican plant. Clyburn is the third-ranking Democrat in
the House.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann interviewed Greene as if he had
Lee Harvey Oswald in the dock. Chris Matthews asked guests: "Do you think
this has the look of a dirty trick -- sort of a Watergate number?"
Watergate, you'll recall, involved the Nixon White House trying to persuade
a mildly retarded black man to run for the Senate.
Obama senior
adviser David Axelrod said Greene was not a "legitimate" candidate and
called his victory "a mysterious deal." (Yes, how could a young
African-American man with strange origins, suspicious funding, shady
associations, no experience, no qualifications, and no demonstrable work
history come out of nowhere and win an election?)
They're hopping
mad, these liberals, but it's not clear what their theory of the crime is.
Before accusing Republicans of committing a dirty trick, apparently no one
asked the question: "OK, but what was the trick?"
The key to
Greene's victory, you see, is that he got more votes. How do liberals
imagine Republicans pulled that off? Mesmerize the Democrats into voting for
an idiot? If Republicans could do that, John McCain would be president.
There is zero possibility that Republicans skipped their own primary to
vote for Greene in the Democratic primary. The marquee South Carolina
election in last Tuesday's primary was the four-candidate, mudslinging
Republican gubernatorial primary. That one was so heated, it's still to be
decided in a runoff next week.
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).
Not only that, but a higher percentage of Republican primary voters chose a
candidate for Senate (97.12 percent) than did the Democratic primary voters
(86.24 percent).
Perhaps realizing this, liberal loons (Keith
Olbermann) are now pushing the theory that Republicans somehow ... rigged
the voting machines! (This is what happens when you know absolutely nothing
about politics but are given a TV show.)
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. It's likely that someone paid his filing fee,
inasmuch as Greene doesn't appear to have enough money to buy a sandwich.
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? Or how
about making it $150, so Greene could buy a new suit?
But, for the
sake of argument, let's say a Republican paid Greene's filing fee. Even the
worst-case scenario is still not half as bad as what liberals did to Sen.
Patrick Leahy's Republican opponent in 1998. To the delight of the media,
liberals ran a simpleton dairy farmer, Fred Tuttle, in the Republican
primary that year against a millionaire lawyer, Jack McMullen.
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. Having "Fred" actually run for the Senate was openly
described as a publicity stunt.
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." Reporters think there's too much "mudslinging" when the
Republican candidate doesn't immediately endorse the Democrat.
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.
(CBS' Bill Geist to Tuttle: "Are you a sex symbol?")
That's a far
cry from how reporters are treating poor Alvin Greene:
CNN anchor
Don Lemon: You're mentally sound, physically sound? You're not impaired by
anything at this moment?
Greene: No. Just -- I'm OK.
Lemon:
No, just what?
Greene: I'm OK.
Lemon: Quite honestly, you
don't sound OK. Are you impaired by anything right now?
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. Jim DeMint won his last
election, 53.7 percent to 44.1 percent.
And Alvin Greene is clearly
more qualified to be a senator than Patrick Leahy.
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