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Meet Alvin M. Greene. He lives at home with his 81-year-old father and has no cellphone or computer. This 32-year-old unemployed military veteran is the  controversial winner of  Tuesday’s Democratic Primary in South Carolina. During  his  campaign he never gave a speech, didn’t launch a Web site, never hired political  consultants or plant any lawn signs. According to the Washington Post, there’s only  $114 in his campaign bank account and he says that the only check he has ever  written  was to cover his filing fee of $10,400. Yet, more than 100,000 South  Carolina  Democrats voted for Greene, giving him 59% of the vote against a well  funded ex-judge  who has served four terms in the state legislature. Interesting  story isn’t it? Well,  there’s more.

In a three-hour interview with the Washington Post, he could not name a single specific thing he’d done to campaign for political office. Equally important, the Associated Press has reported that Mr. Greene is facing pending felony charges for allegedly showing pornography to a University of South Carolina student. The state’s Democratic Party chairman is not at all happy with the situation and is calling for him to withdraw from the general election. Mr. Green’s response to the democratic party has been he’s not going anywhere and is actually challenging  the incumbent Republican Jim DeMint, to a September debate.

There are all types of political commentary and conspiracy theories taking place trying to explain how a totally obscure, unknown like Alvin Green could pull off such an upset. The primary theories that seem to be gaining traction are those concerning Greene being a Republican/Tea Party plant and possibly that his win was a direct result of his name coming before his opponent’s on the voter rolls. Others think Greene benefitted from his opponent’s name (Vic Rawl) being supposedly more ethnically identifiable than his. Whatever the case may be, this whole story seems very, very fishy.

Either the current Democratic leadership in South Carolina are incompetent retards or the GOP/Tea Party leadership are really diabolical political masterminds {{{shoulder shrug}}}. One thing I do know, I be damned if I’m unemployed and throw away $10,400 on a political campaign I have no real intentions of winning unless I have more money on hand. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but this story obviously is the handy work of an ” invisible hand.”