Alvin Greene's in a boxing match with no gloves on

[BridgeTheGap]

These are strange political times -- times when one may feel certain that the inmates have taken over the asylum. In South Carolina, Alvin Greene, 32, unemployed and unknown, captured 59 percent of the vote statewide in the Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat after hardly lifting a finger. Lacking yard signs, bumper stickers, campaign workers, telephone banks, advertisement and even a website, Greene was able to defeat party-backed Vic Rawl, a former judge and state legislator.

So how embarrassing is it for Rawl and South Carolina's Democratic Party to have been beaten by his guy?

Meanwhile, Greene has emerged as yet another laughing stock in the state whose sitting governor disappeared a while back, lied about his whereabouts and then resurfaced and confessed that he'd skipped to Argentina to be with his "soul mate," who just so happens not to be his wife.

Anyhow, Alvin Greene is now pitted against Republican incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint, and analysts say that there's more chance of a blizzard in hell than of any Democrat being able to defeat DeMint. That certainly includes Greene, who in addition to his invisible campaign, was slapped with a felony obscenity charge for allegedly showing nasty pictures to a coed. Greene was poor enough to qualify for a public defender. There's also the mystery of Greene saying that he was "honorably, but involuntarily" discharged from the Army about nine months ago.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100617/COLUMNISTS09/6170306/1054/OPINION/Betty+Winston+Bayé+|+Alvin+Greene+s+in+a+boxing+match+with+no+gloves+on

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I agree with state Rep. Todd Rutherford. I think Greene is a victim of a hoax.

"Though he believes that there's "a 90 percent chance" that somebody else put up the 10 grand for Greene to run, Rutherford shared in a phone interview his sense that Greene is more likely the victim of a hoax than some cunning, political perpetrator. "I feel like he's being exploited, like there's a joke going around and he doesn't get it," he said. "There are people who are making up T-shirts announcing that they voted for Alvin Greene. But it's not funny if he doesn't get the joke."