{"id":1829,"date":"2010-06-11T03:50:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2010-06-11T03:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:50:33","slug":"a-tale-of-two-embarrassments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/a-tale-of-two-embarrassments\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Embarrassments"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time, any political party will find themselves with a candidate for public office that is, frankly, an embarrassment.  Lets take a look at how the two parties deal with such embarrassments.  The embarrassment for the GOP is Sharon Angle.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"angle\"<\/a> …It’s not at all surprising that National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-TX) is trying to make this race about anything but Sharon Angle:<\/p>\n

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn on Wednesday downplayed the importance of new Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle’s conservative issue positions, saying the race will continue to be a "referendum" on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

… when he gets in touch with Angle, they won’t be talking about issues but rather mechanics.<\/p>\n

"We’re going to talk about do you have the campaign manager that you need, do you have the pollster, and those sorts of things," said Cornyn. "Winning an election is not rocket science, but it does take some discipline and it does take some organization. That’s what we will hope to add value to." <\/p>\n

Leaving aside Cornyn’s inadvertent acknowledgement that Republicans lack discipline and organization, it’s not surprising that he wants to discuss yard signs and envelope lickers rather than the issues according to Angle<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow and Las Vegas investigative reporter Jonathan Humbert discuss how the GOP is trying to bend her from obtuse angle to right angle.<\/font><\/p>\n

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So here, the GOP has a candidate that makes Rand Paul seem normal, and they\u2019re trying to hide the extremity of her Teabuggery instead of admitting, as they should, what an embarrassment she is.<\/font><\/p>\n

The embarrassment for the Democrats is Alvin Greene.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"alvin_green\"<\/a> Alvin Greene never gave a speech during his campaign<\/strong> to become South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn’t start a website or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There’s $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During a three-hour interview, the unemployed<\/strong> military veteran could not name a single thing he’d done to campaign for political office. Yet more than 100,000 South Carolinians voted for Greene on Tuesday, handing him nearly 60 percent of the vote tally and a resounding victory over Vic Rawl, a well-known former judge who has served four terms in the state Legislature.<\/p>\n

"I’m the Democratic Party nominee," Greene said at his father’s rural home in central South Carolina. "The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina."<\/p>\n

Things have gotten stranger since Greene’s win.<\/p>\n

First, The Associated Press reported that Greene faces felony obscenity charges for allegedly showing pornography to a University of South Carolina student last November<\/strong>. Greene says he’s "not guilty."<\/p>\n

Then, the state’s Democratic Party chairman called on him to withdraw from the general election<\/strong>. And House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. \u2014 who has questioned whether Greene might have been planted in the race by Republicans \u2014 is calling for federal and state investigations.<\/p>\n

"Here is Alvin Greene, unemployed, he goes into the Democratic headquarters and pays $10,000. That’s no little bit of money for an unemployed person<\/strong>," Clyburn said\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Keith Olbermann interviewed Greene.<\/font><\/p>\n

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During the interview, Greene\u2019s lawyer was advising him off camera.<\/font><\/p>\n

Clearly this man is not Senatorial material, and the Democratic party is doing the right thing, by trying to remove him.<\/font><\/p>\n

The possibility that he was a GOP plant entered my mine as well, but what baffled me was how he could have managed to get 100,000 Democrats to vote for him.  Then I learned that South Carolina is an \u201copen primary\u201d state.  That means anybody can vote for anyone.  Then I understood. Greene\u2019s votes must have come mostly from Republicans.  With DeMint running unopposed on the GOP side, Republicans could cross-over and vote for Greene without risk.  I join Clyburn\u2019s call for investigations.<\/font><\/p>\n

Some of you may remember that I opposed open primaries in the last election.  Now you know why.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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