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."
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Allen West ping!!
I remember this guy. West knows what it takes to get the job done.
**West knows what it takes to get the job done.**
UCMJ?? He desserves a MEDAL ...AND the SEAT!!!
I donated to his campaign, did you? He’s a straight shooter and a good guy. We need him congress.
I’m doing everything I can to get him elected :-)
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)
That’s why I posted the Barf Alert!! But it’s from The New Republic.
Allen West for Congress, dittos
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.
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.
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.
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”
I can’t make sense of the title. But, whatever....
Go, Allen, GO! I really hope this guy wins big.
Eve Fairbanks mocked Allen West in this article. She is a racist.
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).
Yeah, she was pretty nasty. I've read some stuff online accusing her of being racist, by the way.
Me too. I hope he wins.
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