Maybe South Carolina Really Is An Alternative Universe

I've spent the better part of this month and most of last month making fun of South Carolina. Well, come to think about it, I've spent since last summer making fun of South Carolina.

I've accused the political process in that state of living in a Fantasy World.  It's not every day you get so many wackos in one state, and I'm not just talking about the regular people.  I'm solely focused on elected officials.  When you consider the saga of Mark Sanford and his quest for finding love on the Appalachian Trail; the number of times Senator Jim DeMint has called the president a socialist while routinely accusing anyone who questions GOP leadership as anti-American and endlessly insists Republicans are led by God, the fact that Rep. Joe Wilson can angrily call the president a liar during an address to a joint session of Congress and become a folk hero to a Party that would have called for the head of any Democrat doing the same to George Bush;  that Sen. Lindsey "Pretty Eyes" Graham refuses to come out of the closet mainly because he's in South Carolina; that the front runner to replace Lover Boy Sanford is a sex fiend named Nikki; that it's common, routine daily interaction for an elected Republican in SC to call the president a "rag head" and then accuse sex fiend Nikki of being one too-- all the while maintaining his personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then honestly I'm well within all reasonable considerations to accuse them of living in a alternative reality.  Honestly I am.

But this one takes the cake.   By now we've all heard of Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina to challenge incumbent Republican Jim DeMint.  Without spending one penny, other than the fee to file for office, and without any name recognition, the unemployed Greene beat a well known judge in the Democratic Primary on Tuesday.  Since then the mystery behind Greene has only deepened.  It is one of the most bizarre, outrageous and controversial stories I can ever remember, and I'm from Illinois-- a state where three of our last six governors have went to prison with our fourth (Blago) on his way.

I really think it's possible South Carolina is in fact part of an alternative universe.  Maybe there is a blip in the Many Worlds branch where SC is existing in both realities, ours and an alternative quantum.  It's possible their belief that God has ordained the GOP and George Bush was a popular president exists in their parallel quantum and it's bleeding over to ours.  There has to be some sort of time-space continuum that is allowing them to coexist in one or more realities.  I'm not sure how else to explain the very strange behavior of that State, which only seems to be getting stranger and stranger.