GOP crazy has been all the rage for some time, with mad stars like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle. And that is some really good crazy, the kind of crazy that leaves you wide-eyed. If Palin said the moon was full of communists, she’d get equal time with Bill Nye the Science Guy and the tea partiers would probably start mooning Democrats (please don’t suggest this).
Now, however, the Democrats appear to have accidentally gained a weirdness all their own. In South Carolina, they’ve got Alvin Greene, who came from behind (like on another track behind) to win the Dem. nomination to run for Senate against Jim DeMint. How this happened, we may never know.
Mr. Greene seems like a perfectly fine fellow in his way, but the term “deer in the headlights” never saw a better fit. In interviews, he’s been inscrutable and, frankly, quite strange. Now he’s given his first speech, in which he says we need to take back the country from “terrorists and communists” and that we’ve lost 125,000 jobs.
Just witness the awkward:
His story is one of the oddest in current politics (although Angle gives him some major competition there), and if it’s ever learned just how he suddenly gained the nomination–without campaigning–that story ought to get even more interesting. He’s not crazy enough to be funny, but he’s guaranteed to make you scratch your head in wonder. It’s almost as puzzling as the big story I’d personally like to know the real details of someday, the saga of Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert.
