Allen West

[Backstop]

Sorry...just couldn't restrain myself any longer.

[American Patriot]

I was wondering who would be first. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ryan Ruck]

Rep. Allen West's Response To CAIR Letter: ''NUTS!''

August 16, 2011

A South Florida Muslim group sent Congressman Allen West a letter asking him to disassociate himself from activists the group considers anti-Islamic.

Congressman West did respond and the letter he sent back is raising some eyebrows.

If it looks like the shortest letter you've ever seen from a member of Congress, it probably is. How short? Try one word, in capital letters: "NUTS!"

"I was shocked at first. I didn't expect this from a Congressman," said Nezar Hamze, the executive director of CAIR Florida - the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"We stand up for the civil rights of the Muslim community. That's what we do," said Hamze.

Hamze says he wrote to the Republican Congressman earlier this month with his concerns about the Congressman's relationships with groups and people Hamze considers to be anti-Islamic.

"When I first saw that, I wasn't sure if he was calling me nuts, or he was calling my concerns nuts," said Hamze.

Constituents in West's district 22 are just now reading the letter.

"It doesn't look too professional to me. It doesn't look thought out," said one constituent named Chuck.

Simone Oliver, another district 22 constituent thinks it's fine, but says it needs a little more.

"Maybe another sentence, explaining," she said.

West has not fully explained his position, but in other letters to CAIR Florida, he has said he is neither anti-Islamic nor anti-Muslim.

During World War II, General Anthony McAuliffe famously wrote a one-word letter to the Germans in response to a surrender ultimatum. The word used: "Nuts!"

Hamze doesn't think he'll ever find out what Congressman West meant with the word because, he says, West has turned down all meetings with CAIR Florida.

"[If I could say something to him now,] I'd tell him to grow up! To act like a Congressman and engage in dialogue, and to stop the school boy insults," said Hamze.

West turned down an interview request from CBS4 News on Monday. As of Monday night, his office had not yet responded to requests for a statement on the matter.

Additionally as a fan of Jericho, the former TV show, I approve of this message.

[American Patriot]

Perhaps CAIR should take their OWN advice?

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Laura Ingraham vs. Charlie Rangel - smack down debate - The Factor - 8-18-11

New York Democrat Congressman Charles Rangel responds to Florida Republican congressman Allen West's recent comments about the entire Democratic Party. Laura Ingraham does this only as she can. Great Debate!

[Ryan Ruck]

Allen West: ‘Marxist’ Obama Intentionally Destroying Economy

"It's intentional because that's who this President is. The President is a Marxist who believes in the separation of classes."

Allen West With Michael Berry, In Studio - Last Segment - 9/26/11

[Ryan Ruck]

Allen West to Obama, Reid, Pelosi: ‘Get the Hell Out of the United States of America’

January 29, 2012

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) had a strong message Saturday for President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Get the hell out.”

West made the comments during a speech at a Palm Beach County GOP event in West Palm Beach.

“This is a battlefield that we must stand upon. And we need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table,” West said.

The audience was booing by the time West got to Pelosi’s name.

“Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else,” he continued. “You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”

As the audience cheered and many rose to their feet, West added, “Yeah I said ‘hell.’”

“This is not about 1 percent or 99 percent. This is about 100 percent. It’s about 100 percent America. And I will not stand back and watch anyone defame, degrade or destroy that which my father fought for, my older brother, my father-in-law, myself, my nephew and all my friend still in uniform,” he said.

“I will not allow President Obama to take the United States of America and destroy it. If that means I’m the No. 1 target for the Democrat Party, all I got to say is one thing: Bring it on, baby.”

YouTube: Rep. Allen West - "Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Get The Hell Out Of The USA" - 28 January 2012

[Malsua]

Allen West is great.

If he goes in as a VP this time, as he can't get main billing, he's got a great shot at Pres in 4-8 years.

The two people I want(ed) elected in this cycle are both Black. I guess that makes me a racist.

[American Patriot]

HELL YEAH!

I'm sick and tired of these people. You probably saw me jump down a neice's throat on Face Book the other day for telling my son "to go to Canada". lol

He was upset over people trying to take MORE taxes. He's liberal in some things, but he's run several businesses already (he's just turned 26). He was complaining about taxes on Face Book. Someone (his cousin) tried to tell him if he didn't like it here to go to Canada.

I told her that this was wrong, the SOCIALISTS need to get the hell out.

[Ryan Ruck]

GOP Erasing District of Tea Party Star

January 30, 2012

Strong conservative, Tea Party favorite, and rising star Allen West could find his congressional seat gerrymandered Democrat—by none other than the Republican Party. West's "sacrifice" at the hands of his own party smells like the latest example of the establishment fighting back against the Tea Party, according to Legal Insurrection. One Florida legislator, who happens to be working for the Mitt Romney campaign, "tried to hide behind a need to comply with [state and] federal law, but that’s obviously a dodge since there could have been many ways to comply yet not sacrifice West," writes William Jacobson.

Never one to avoid controversy, West over the weekend had strong words for President Obama and other top Democrats who have their eye on the Sunshine State come November, telling them to "get the hell out of the United States of America," reports Mediaite. Apparently unfazed by any potential challenge to his seat, West told the Democrats to "bring it on!"

Between what I am convinced were actions by Republican party insiders to drum Herman Cain out of the Presidential race and now this, I am getting increasingly concerned.

We, of course, aren't left with much of an alternative...

[American Patriot]

There are five groups fighting for power now.

Liberals
Conservatives
GOP
Anarchists
Communists

The Liberals and Commies are controlling and running the Anarchists.

The GOP doesn't want to lose it's power "to the people" so they are no different from the Democrats in that respect.

The Conservatives are the group here on this site for the most part.

Even those of us who are "Conservative" have our own personal beliefs and we don't lock step with other Conservatives.

The problem is everyone wants to form their own part.

I still say this is WRONG.

We Conservatives, the Tea party needs to take over the GOP and get it back on course.

Democrats need to kick the Socialists, Commies and Anarchists OUT and get back on the straight and narrow as well.

None of this is going to happen. Soon we will be more like Europe than Europe itself, filled with various "parties" with all KINDS of beliefs.

That's when America falls finally.

[Ryan Ruck]

I think Sarah Palin dead on nails what is going on here...

Cannibals in GOP Establishment Employ Tactics of the Left

January 27, 2012

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.

We know that Newt fought in the trenches during the Reagan Revolution. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, Newt was among a handful of Republican Congressman who would regularly take to the House floor to defend Reagan at a time when conservatives didn’t have Fox News or talk radio or conservative blogs to give any balance to the liberal mainstream media. Newt actually came at Reagan’s administration “from the right” to remind Americans that freer markets and tougher national defense would win our future. But this week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race. (I know, it makes no sense, and the GOP establishment hopes you won’t stop and think about this nonsense. Mark Levin and others have shown the ridiculousness of this.) To add insult to injury, this “anti-Reagan” claim was made by a candidate who admitted to not even supporting or voting for Reagan. He actually was against the Reagan movement, donated to liberal candidates, and said he didn’t want to go back to the Reagan days. You can’t change history. We know that Newt Gingrich brought the Reagan Revolution into the 1990s. We know it because none other than Nancy Reagan herself announced this when she presented Newt with an award, telling us, “The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.” As Rush and others pointed out, if Nancy Reagan had ever thought that Newt was in any way an opponent of her beloved husband, she would never have even appeared on a stage with him, let alone presented him with an award and said such kind things about him. Nor would Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan, have chosen to endorse Newt in this primary race. There are no two greater keepers of the Reagan legacy than Nancy and Michael Reagan. What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.

But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.

I spoke up before the South Carolina primary to urge voters there to keep this primary going because I have great concern about the GOP establishment trying to anoint a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots and all the needed energy and resources we as commonsense constitutional conservatives could bring to the general election in order to defeat President Obama. Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end. We need to vet this. Pundits in the Beltway are gleefully proclaiming that this primary race is over after Florida, despite 46 states still not having chimed in. Well, perhaps it’s possible that it will come to a speedy end in just four days; but with these questions left unanswered, it will not have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Without this necessary vetting process, the unanswered question of Governor Romney’s conservative bona fides and the unanswered and false attacks on Newt Gingrich will hang in the air to demoralize many in the electorate. The Tea Party grassroots will certainly feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with the perceived orchestrated outcome from self-proclaimed movers and shakers trying to sew this all up. And, trust me, during the general election, Governor Romney’s statements and record in the private sector will be relentlessly parsed over by the opposition in excruciating detail to frighten off swing voters. This is why we need a fair primary that is not prematurely cut short by the GOP establishment using Alinsky tactics to kneecap Governor Romney’s chief rival.

As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?

- Sarah Palin

[Ryan Ruck]

Why couldn't Allen West be running for President this election?

YouTube: Allen West CPAC 2012 Full Speech

[Ryan Ruck]

Allen West Would Consider Veep Slot

April 6, 2012

Sarah Palin has said her “rogue” pick for vice president would be Rep. Allen West — and on Friday the Florida Republican said if he does get that call, “if it’s the right fit” he would join the ticket.

But West told CNN he doubts he would be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee.

“Yeah, well, right now, you know, the focus is, of course, being a good congressional representative,” West said. “But if someone were to make that call to me, which I really doubt is ever going to happen, you would have to make sure that it is something that God would ordain for you, and you’d have to talk to your wife, my wife and my two daughters about. But we have always stepped up to the plate to serve our country. And if it’s the right fit, then I will do so.”

“But as I said, I really, really much so doubt that that would ever happen,” he told CNN’s Kyra Phillips.

West added that he doesn’t personally know Romney and would “have to sit down and discuss things” if he were asked to join the ticket.

“Well, you know, I’ve never been out on a dinner date with him if that’s what you’re asking me,” West said. “So I don’t know if I would like him. But I think that we’d have to sit down and discuss things. And look, I think that Gov. Romney and I definitely have a different vision for this country, a vision that gets us away from debt, despair and the horrible situations you see with our economic security, our energy security and our national security. So I think that we will be able to come together as a team and be able to develop the right type of platform to turn this ship of state around for the United States of America.”
Palin said on Fox News that “top of my list” is West, adding that the presidential nominee shouldn’t “think they have to go with somebody necessarily safe” for their vice presidential pick.

“They’re going to get clobbered. The media will make things up about them and their record and their reputations and their families,” Palin told Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “So no matter who it is, so they might as well get someone who is passionate and strong, as I say, like about Allen West, understands the Constitution and wants to put government back on the side of the people.”

[Ryan Ruck]

Nikki Haley: Allen West Would Be A 'Good' VP Pick

April 5, 2012

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sarah Palin agree on one thing: Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) would be a good GOP vice presidential pick.

"You have heard Governor Palin talk about West, and he's good," Haley told Fox News. "Of course, Marco Rubio is great and Chris Christie. We know he can be the fighter, and I think there are so many really great ones out there. I think Romney is going to have a hard time picking."

Haley has endorsed Mitt Romney, unlike Palin, who voted for Newt Gingrich in the Alaska primary and believes that whoever the GOP nominee is, he needs to go "rogue" with his choice of running mate.

"Top of my list is Allen West," Palin said on 'Hannity' Tuesday night. "I love that he has that military experience, he is a public servant willing to serve for the right reasons. When I talk about going rogue, what I want is to encourage the GOP nominee to not think that they have to go with somebody necessarily safe. No matter who it is, they're going to get clobbered. The media will make things up about them and their record and their reputations and their families."

In the same interview, Palin said that the prospect of a second vice presidential run for herself is "not a no." Haley has repeatedly said that she does not want the second slot on a Romney ticket.

"If offered any position by Gov. Romney, I would say no," she told the AP Tuesday. "The people of South Carolina gave me a chance. I have a job to do and I'm not going to leave my job for anything."

[American Patriot]

Rick Donaldson also says Allen West would be a "Good VP pick" - and President later.

[Ryan Ruck]

‘True Racism’: Allen West Calls Out Liberals Who Think Black Conservatives Need ‘Approval’ From Their ‘Masters’

July 8, 2012

Congressman Allen West (R-FL) made a number of notable media appearances over the weekend, and is receiving both praise and condemnation for his comments, depending on your source.

On Fox News with Mike Huckabee, West responded to a recent L.A. Times article that said America’s “dirtiest job” is “justifying Allen West.”

West calmly responded, with analysis on who the real “racists” are in politics:

“I really feel that it is [demeaning] to me to think that I need some individual to ‘justify’ me and my existence.

“Look, I went through 22 years being in the military. [I rose] to the rank of Lt. Colonel. I have a bachelor‘s degree and 2 master’s degrees, and for these white liberals to believe they can have this condescending manner toward black conservatives, that we need to have approval from our quote unquote, I guess “masters,” for us to be able to speak — see that’s where the true racism really lies… is with the white liberals who don’t want to see someone such as myself, that broke away from their dependency class, and is out here and able to possibly contend against them with the policies that they are promoting that is destroying the black community.

“I know I’m their #1 target, and it just emboldens me to speak out even stronger. And the heck with them if they think that someone else needs to approve [of] me and what I stand for.” [Emphasis added]

Watch the entire clip, via Fox News, below:



On another Fox News appearance, West reiterated that Obama has gone from “hope and change” to a more divisive and “envious” rhetoric where the administration is trying to separate Americans along gender lines, sexual orientation, and income level.

West also remarked that he does not regret his choice of words at a recent fundraiser, where he reportedly said that Obama doesn’t want people to have the self-esteem of getting up and earning the title of “American.”

“He’d rather have you be his slave and be economically dependent upon him,” West explained.

Watch the entire interview and explanation, via Mediaite.

[Ryan Ruck]

Soros-Backed Super PAC Plans to Take Out Rep. West

July 11, 2012

“Dump West,” the new George Soros-backed Super PAC charged with the task of taking out Rep. Allen West (R-FL), will file with the FEC as early as next week, according to documents obtained by the Shark Tank. And judging by some of the names involved in the project, it looks like the group desperately wants to see the retired Lieutenant Colonel voted out of office.

“Top national Democratic operative Charles Halloran has been retained … to target Congressman Allen West for defeat this November,” the Tank’s Javier Manjarres reports.

“Halloran is a former aide to President Bill Clinton and is one of the most respected voter targeting/turn out experts in the Democratic Party,” he adds.

Other top-tier names involved in the “Dump West” project include Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (who tasked former Congressman Larry Smith, now a lobbyist, with stocking the group’s war chest) and, of course, billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

“[L]eft wing billionaire George Soros is among those who committed to a $5 million war chest to defeat West,” Manjarres adds.

Then there’s this:

Halloran has brought in “American Directions” to manage the Super-PAC’s effort for internet based, low-dollar fundraising, polling and voter contact. “American Directions” is among the heavy weight firms in Washington DC …

And last but not least:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is fully on-board in the efforts to raise money for the “Dump West” effort. West’s Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy has raised a sizeable war chest and those donors who has given him the maximum are viewed as potential donors to the “Dump West” effort.

What we’re trying to say is that they really, really, really want Rep. West out.

“It’s not surprising that the hard Left is seeking to beat West” Florida Tea Party leader Eric Von Tausch told the Tank. “West’s a conservative hero.”

Here is the memo obtained by the Shark Tank:



(H/T: FN) This story and its headline has been updated.

[American Patriot]

I had some woman stop me in a store the other day.

She was carrying petitions to "Limit how much can be given to candidates". I said "Yeah, go on..."

She went on to say how they were trying to limit the amount that companies can give to candidates. I laughed and said "Why?"

"Because we want to limit companies from giving money to candidates!"

She couldn't even explain it.

I told to stick her petition where the sun didn't shine.

My wife thought I was rude. hahaha

They are trying to prevent companies in colorado from donating to Republicans....

[American Patriot]

And Soros should be limited to his home state. Not any other state. And if he is a foreigner he should be removed from America.