Here’s one eye-popper likely to come out of tonight’s run-off in South Carolina. Strom Thurmond’s son Paul (yes, Strom was siring children well into geezerdom) is probably going to get beat in the race for the GOP nomination in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district by a right-wing, Tea Partying, Palin-backed African-American candidate named Tim Scott.
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