South Carolina Hilarity

The rollicking good time in South Carolina continues with the loser of the election trying to get the election thrown out over voting machine irregularities. It doesn't seem to matter that the elected nominee, Alvin Greene, won with 59% of the vote. No! What's important is that a middle-class, black veteran beat a white, upper-class career politician in the primary.

The state party's 92-member executive committee is meeting in Columbia to hear a protest by former state lawmaker Vic Rawl. Earlier this week, Rawl filed an official protest of the primary results, arguing that malfunctions in voting machines or software may have caused him to lose the June 8 Democratic primary to political unknown Alvin Greene.

Greene, 32, stunned the party establishment when he defeated Rawl in the primary to see who would face GOP U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, the heavy favorite in the fall. Greene won with 59 percent of the vote to Rawl's 41 percent.

I hope Rawl prevails in his protest and the state Democratic party overturns the election. To have the state politicos overturning a popular vote to appoint a career politician over an unknown newcomer would be priceless. The media backlash would be exquisite.

And the Democrats say that the Republicans are racist. This is too much fun to watch.