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Recruiting Scandal(Another Black Conservative Thrown Under the GOP Bus)[Barf Alert!]
TNR ^ | July 26, 2008 | Eve Fairbanks

Posted on 07/26/2008 10:01:17 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77

....The GOP's greatest embarrassment of all might seem to be Florida's 22nd, where the party that Iraq destroyed is running a candidate charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And, yet, the South Florida GOP doesn't see it that way. This year's surprise in Palm Beach County is that local Republican officials, some of whom are also presiding over more competitive races, believe their candidate is not a laughingstock but the marquee Republican of the year--that he is not a symptom of what ails the national GOP but a possible cure.

Palm Beach County Republican Chairman Sid Dinerstein, a gregarious operative whose official bio recounts his receipt of Lefferts Junior High School's "Most Popular Boy" award, insists that as voters learn more about West's "Taji incident"--as West's spokesman delicately calls it--they'll begin to see it not as an echo of Abu Ghraib but as a neat parable about the dangers of creeping liberalism. An egghead who reads medieval Muslim history and the anti-socialist French thinker Frederic Bastiat in his spare time, West was on track for a generalship when his unit was assigned in August 2003 to interrogate an Iraqi policeman who had supposedly turned Benedict Arnold. The policeman refused to cooperate, so West dragged him outside, pushed his head into the sand, and fired a gun next to his face to get him to sing. "I'd do it again if I had to," West tells me over tea and a doughnut in Plantation, Florida. "It wasn't torture. Seeing Rosie O'Donnell naked would be torture."

(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allenwest; electioncongress; fl2008; gop; taji
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1 posted on 07/26/2008 10:01:18 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: smedley64; Ooh-Ah; Bahbah; IMissPresidentReagan; 50cal Smokepole; Kerretarded; WorkerbeeCitizen; ...

Allen West ping!!


2 posted on 07/26/2008 10:03:26 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I remember this guy. West knows what it takes to get the job done.


3 posted on 07/26/2008 10:04:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: All
Allen West for Congress
4 posted on 07/26/2008 10:07:01 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Liberty Valance

**West knows what it takes to get the job done.**

UCMJ?? He desserves a MEDAL ...AND the SEAT!!!


5 posted on 07/26/2008 10:07:32 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I'll never vote for a LIBERAL ... even if they Do have an (R) after their name.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I donated to his campaign, did you? He’s a straight shooter and a good guy. We need him congress.


6 posted on 07/26/2008 10:10:31 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Islander7

I’m doing everything I can to get him elected :-)


7 posted on 07/26/2008 10:12:29 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

What nutjob website did you find this article on?
Daily Kos?

(No, I will NOT follow the link to find out - it’s the poster’s responsibility to see that I don’t have to contaminate my computer that way)


8 posted on 07/26/2008 10:12:42 AM PDT by Redbob ("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Redbob

That’s why I posted the Barf Alert!! But it’s from The New Republic.


9 posted on 07/26/2008 10:13:58 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Allen West for Congress, dittos


10 posted on 07/26/2008 10:14:59 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Fox_Mulder77
This like The Twilight Zone.


11 posted on 07/26/2008 10:41:34 AM PDT by rdb3 (My marriage was everything I wish I didn't know. So why am I engaged again?)
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To: rdb3

Allen West’s credibility rises enormously with this attack by the execrable TNR (as if his credibility needed any boosting). What’s next, an attack from The Nation. LOL.


12 posted on 07/26/2008 10:47:08 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: rdb3; Bahbah

To think TNR spent the time and resources to go out of their way to attack Col. West speaks volumes about how he’s viewed by the left: a serious threat.


13 posted on 07/26/2008 10:56:23 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77
Not mentioned in the article is that after the incident, he reported himself to his superior because he knew he had violated regulations. He thus ended his own military career.

Meanwhile we have members of Congress that don't live in their districts, others that take bribes, and others that receive outrageous financing on real estate. The difference is that they all claim they did nothing wrong.

14 posted on 07/26/2008 11:24:32 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

Also not mentioned in the article is Col. West’s response during his trial, when asked if he would do it again he said:

“If it is about the safety and lives of my Men...I would go through hell with a gasoline can”


15 posted on 07/26/2008 11:42:40 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I can’t make sense of the title. But, whatever....

Go, Allen, GO! I really hope this guy wins big.


16 posted on 07/26/2008 11:48:59 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Eve Fairbanks mocked Allen West in this article. She is a racist.


17 posted on 07/26/2008 11:50:59 AM PDT by smedley64 (UHbUHmUH- The incoherent candidate.)
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To: Lancey Howard
"I can’t make sense of the title..."

The GOP continues to ignore Allen West. He is too traditionally conservative for them, and they continue to refuse to help him out financially in his run for Congress. Their treatment of him is a barometer of which direction the GOP is heading. They give us RINO McCain, who most people in the Republican party will be voting for simply because Obama terrifies the hell out of them, and they ignore helping TRUE conservatives like West. They are throwing him under the bus because he isn't "one of them" (a milquetoast, weak kneed, weenie Rino).

18 posted on 07/26/2008 11:56:54 AM PDT by smedley64 (UHbUHmUH- The incoherent candidate.)
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To: smedley64
Eve Fairbanks mocked Allen West in this article. She is a racist.

Yeah, she was pretty nasty. I've read some stuff online accusing her of being racist, by the way.

19 posted on 07/26/2008 12:00:35 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Islander7

Me too. I hope he wins.


20 posted on 07/26/2008 12:25:55 PM PDT by therut
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