Expect a media-democrat fondness for the felonious T-Rav!

A convicted felon may represent the democrats' only
hope to get one of their own elected to the US Senate.

The Establishment media is falling in love with Thomas Ravenel.
A recent establishment media headline  reads: "Ravenel plans to take fight for liberties into Senate race."
Ravenel was elected SC Treasurer, as a Republican, in 2006. After being convicted on cocaine chargers, Ravenel was sent to jail. He is an embarrassment that can be tied to the GOP. The media, and the democrats, will not let him fade away. He, and the shame he brought, is just too irresistible to let go. Ravenel now prostitutes himself for attention and that only enhances the hideous nature of his persona. And now Ravenel is claiming he wants to be a US Senator, and he's running against US Sen. Lindsey Graham. He announced plans to run July 4. Graham won the GOP Primary in June. Graham, a moderate Republican, was a media (and democrat) darling because he was challenged by the more Conservative base of the Republican Party. Graham also has a penchant for “compromising” with liberals sometimes, siding with them, instead of Conservatives in his party. It's the best deal democrats can get – the best they can hope for - from a Republican. But just like John McCain found as a 2008 presidential candidate versus Barack Obama, a moderate, compromising Republican, is only favored by the media versus Conservatives. McCain likely still has whiplash from the media reversal on him, after he became the GOP nominee. Now the media (and the democrats) will be friends of Thomas Ravenel instead of Graham. And not only because Ravenel is an embarrassment. Ravenel represents a path to victory, for otherwise electable SC democrats. The late US Sen. Strom Thurmond said: “I'm sure my opponent is a fine fellow, whatever his name is." Graham would have presumably been in the same position of strength in 2014, as Thurmond was then.
With the total failure of the Obama Administration, democrats' chances for election are lower now than they ever have been in South Carolina. But since there is a faction in the Republican Party, who identify as libertarians, Ravenel could conceivably trim enough votes from Graham, to get a democrat elected.
That is the hope of liberals in the media and democrats. Because of such dire prospects for democrats in Republican states, drastic measures must be employed. A grotesque, felon, in the form of Thomas Ravenel, is about as desperate as you can get.