Vic Rawl  did the impossible.  He lost to an unemployed man who did not do any campaigning whatsoever.  Or did he?

I’ve appeared in front of Judge Rawl on multiple occasions in Circuit Court.  He is a bright man, and even ran successful campaigns for S.C. House in the past.  Rawl, however, wants an investigation of Alvin Greene.

Rawl and others should be careful.  Absent some obvious and trickery, establishment figures like Vic Rawl ought not to be assuming that people don’t deserve to win the nomination just because something seems odd.  What is the probable cause?  That Greene is poor?  That he did less work that Rawl?  Sure, Greene had a public defender in his criminal case arising out of what he did in the library at a USC computer lab.  But just because someone is indigent one day does not mean they are indigent the next.  And at worst for Greene, this is probable cause that Greene lied to the court to get a public defender.

Nothing would surprise me in South Carolina.  Having spent many years in politics and campaigns in the Palmetto State, anything is possible.  South Carolina is the home of a certain political consultant who famously purchased neon spraypaint to deface campaign signs – his own candidate’s signs to elicit a sympathy vote.  So anything is possible in South Carolina.  Let’s wait and see.