I urge you to go ahead and watch me on ETV with Mark Quinn tonight at 7:30.
But I doubt you’ll be as interested in what I say as in this OTHER interview that Mark did at ETV studios today, with Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene.
The guy’s just all over the place now, isn’t he?
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Many politicians use a whole lot of words to say nothing, but this guy isn’t even good at it. He wins the “Sarah Palin magazines-I-have-read” award hands down!
Obviously mentally ill. Flat affect and unable to make eye contact. This is so sad on so many levels. Mark’s interview was excellent, gentle, even kind. This just breaks my heart.
Brad, thanks for posting this video. I saw the MSNBC interview last night and it’s my impression then that this guy and the situation doesn’t seem quite right. It brings back the memories of the Rod Shealy adventures with his sister, Sherry Martschink.
“He (Shealy) recruited Benjamin Hunt, Jr., an unemployed black fisherman, to run for congress in the Republican primary against incumbent Arthur Ravenel, Jr., even paying Hunt’s filing fee. When the ploy was revealed, Shealy was convicted and fined for violating campaign laws.”
Josh Marshall of TPM said he’d have a piece up shortly. Josh said in referring to Clyburn’s assertion that there were three bogus candidates – “And the first rock we turned over we’ve found that the allegedly sham candidate running against Clyburn was paying a consultant tied to uber-winger Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R). And the one guy who gave him money also contributed to McCain. So since this guy was running in a Democratic primary, I’d say that pretty good prima facie evidence that Clyburn was on to something, at least about that guy.”
Should be interesting. Thanks again.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t understand how Greene’s being a “plant” would have benefited the GOP unless they also somehow brainwashed 58% to vote for him, or if this was designed to drain Rawl’s campaign coffers in fighting a primary battle, which was clearly not the case since Greene (or anyone on his behalf) did not spend a dime on the campaign itself.
The supposed ploy would work if there was a massive effort to get GOP voters to cross over and vote in the Democratic primary (and for Greene specifically) but I saw no sign of that, plus the bigger turnout was for the GOP as one would expect, with a hotly contested four-way gubernatorial race.
I think it’s an Occam’s razor situation here. Low turnout, his name came first, etc. I follow politics closely as you know and while I had heard nothing about Greene, I’d only really heard just the teeniest bit more about Rawl. I suspect for most voters in the booth it was a complete 50-50 guessing game, whatever, vote for the first name, plus, hey, Al Green was a pretty great singer, etc. etc., “Let’s Stay Together,” etc. etc…
Phillip, I had the same objection. But in their defense, what some of the conspiracy theorists are speculating is that someone hacked the electronic vote.
Me, I’m sticking to my theory: They thought he was the Rev. Al Green. Hey, I’d vote for him on that basis.