Did South Carolina really nominate this guy?!?

An ignorant populace deserves exactly what it gets for a government. 100,000+ people voted for him, mostly because his name was first on the ballot. To bad his last name doesn't begin with A, B, or C. Maybe he'd defeat DeMint.

Here's why one voter did it:

I think we've been here before, on the national level. Same questions, same degree of astonishment. And he was not just nominated, he was elected.

this guys great, we need more politicians like him

Breaking: Sharron Angle has legally changed her name to Heidi Klum(e)!

Did you watch the Jon Stewart link in the first post? Hilarious!!! You have GOT to watch it lol.

I thought Stewart was hilarious as well.

I think Greene's success here is due to the anti-incumbent backlash. Guess what? That backlash will yield a great many Greenes . . . and worse.

The videos I have seen of Greene do not inspire confidence. He does not look like a mentally stable fellow.

Mr. Greene has a BA in Political Science from the University of South Carolina.

Stewart is great.

I think this is how we ended up with George W. Bush. He was in my area campaigning very early in primaries and out of curiosity I went to the free BBQ event that was being sponsored by the local business group I'm a member of. I watched him stutter and spit political homilies at the crowd and he even scratch his crotch at one point. Everyone politely applauded at the end, but they didn't seem to really take interest in anything he said or did and mostly focused on the free beer and ribs. I remember thinking what an awkward, doofus of a candidate, no one who pays attention to politics is going to vote for him . I believe, as in the case of Mr. Greene, they just pulled a lever for a familiar name. Maybe the fact that his last name started with a "B" was also a plus. I think most people are guilty of just not paying attention and that's how idiots and crooks get elected- and no party is exempt.

The image of bush scratching his crotch is wonderful. I remember the Repubs selling him hard. "This is a guy you want to lean over the back fence and talk to. . . This is a guy whose lawn mower you would want to borrow. "

Wow! So just because someone generously loans out his mower, he should be president? Great qualifications!

Generally, I cross the street if someone like bush is walking on the same side.

I think this kind of retort sorta lost its oomph after grade 3 or 4, h20man.

Thus, the problem with democracy...

The guy that Greene defeated was not a current incumbent--Jim DeMint is--but rather was elected four times to the U.S. Congress in the eighties and serves on the city board of Charleston, if I remember correctly.

What sort of people like Obama? Black people? If he were white, would you be as stupidly hateful?

That's nice. I don't like democrats or republicans, bush or obama, so your comments won't exactly get my blood boiling.

I am not much of a fan of Obama. But I am less of a fan of just about everyone else. Seriously, though, the country was screwed up through increasingly bad policies during and after the 1980s, and it continues on through today. Saying Obama is responsible for what is wrong with the country today is like blaming the CEO of British Petroleum for causing an oil spill. These people are little more than faces and soothsayers for the entities that they represent. They say little more than people want to hear.

But of course, you are free to be as stupidly ignorant as you choose. Truthiness reigns. Because this is America, and in America, we believe what we hear and do what we are told, and because we can't think, we are left to think with our gut.