Just when I thought this election year couldn't get any stranger

[darksumomo]

From ontd_political  here.

Yahoo! News: Who is Alvin Greene? Mystery S.C. nominee has pending felony charge

Alvin Greene has been on the phone all day. That's to be expected for the guy who just won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary and is facing incumbent Republican Jim DeMint in November. But everyone calling Greene has just been trying to find out who

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[crwilley]

Has South Carolina politics always been this much of a train wreck and we just never noticed before people were putting it up on the Internet?

[darksumomo]

Reposted because of HTML fail.

There's a South Carolinian on my flist who'd know, but she doesn't post much about politics, so I'm not holding my breath.

On the other hand, I suspect South Carolina's politics have always been strange, based on their politicians. John C. Calhoun, the first Vice President to resign, was from there. The congressman who beat up a senator on the floor of the Senate, Preston Brooks was from there. South Carolina was also the first state to secede from the Union. When it did so, James Petigru remarked, "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum." As Wikipedia notes, "This quote is still used to describe contemporary South Carolinian politics."

So, yeah, the state's politics are notoriously weird.

[dogemperor]

VERY interesting info re the AIP throwing their own candidate under the bus...

...because this is also when Sarah Palin was running for Alaskan governor, and there have been repeated observations that Todd Palin has held AIP membership in the 90s.

(Of note, both the AIP and the GOP in Alaska are part of a political engine run by NARasite churches--long story short, I'm working with someone to co-author an upcoming book on this.)

And the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner link is unfortunately dead :P