The Alvin Greene Mystery

Alvin Greene's bizarre interview on Olbermann last night: maybe the weirdest segment on cable news ever?

Mystery continues to abound regarding Alvin Greene's weird win in the South Carolina Democratic primary. How did an unemployed guy with no visible campaign (or visible means of support) stump up the $10,000 filing fee, get 100,000 votes and snag the Dem nomination? James Clyburn suggests a Republican plant:

“I don't know if he was a Republican plant,” Clyburn said, adding that Greene “was someone's plant. What is an unemployed guy doing paying $10,000 to run for the United States Senate? That just doesn’t add up.”

The RW is discounting Clyburn's theory because they'd have nothing to gain: Jim DeMint, the sitting Republican, is set to trounce any Democrat in November anyway. But if Greene is an RNC stooge, this cheap local stunt could have invaluable national effects for the wingnuts:

1. Running against a no-hoper, Jim DeMint wins by an historic margin and looks like a popular hero instead of just the washed-up default conservative he is... more self-fulfilling 'evidence' of America's right-ward swing for the talking heads to chew over endlessly and persuasively in the run-up to November.

2. Make the Democrats look like a bunch of politically-correct, affirmative action crazies who'd nominate any unqualified candidate just because he's black... thus casting doubt on anyone running on a Dem ticket in November.

I'd say either of the above would be worth 10 grand in 'black ops' money to Republicans.