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VIDEO: Tea Party Speaker Declares, ‘I Don’t Care If They Call Me an Extremist’

Posted on | July 5, 2010 | 25 Comments

Notice that Lt. Col. Allen West wore a Gadsden Flag — “Don’t Tread on Me!” — T-shirt at this weekend’s Ft. Lauderdale Tea Party rally:

It’s all great, but the money quote is at 2:27:

“Let me tell you: I don’t care if Ron Klein’s office calls me a radical. I don’t care if they call me an extremist. Because I’d rather be standing here with you all today than to be standing with the Speaker of the House that said unemployment checks are the way that you create jobs.”

ALLEN WEST FOR U.S. CONGRESS

Category: Congress, Florida, Tea Party

Comments

25 Responses to “VIDEO: Tea Party Speaker Declares, ‘I Don’t Care If They Call Me an Extremist’”

  1. Dell
    July 5th, 2010 @ 8:56 pm

    Hey, gg……YOU tell him that.

  2. Dell
    July 5th, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

    Hey, gg……YOU tell him that.

  3. just a conservative girl
    July 5th, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

    GO WEST – I just love him. He is ahead in the polls.

  4. just a conservative girl
    July 5th, 2010 @ 5:03 pm

    GO WEST – I just love him. He is ahead in the polls.

  5. Brian O'Connor
    July 5th, 2010 @ 9:08 pm

    Allen West is the Real Deal! When I talked with JC Watts last month, he singled out West (along with Tim Scott and Bill Hardiman) as an excellent candidate who will be among the 4 or 5 Black Republicans elected to Congress this fall.

  6. Brian O'Connor
    July 5th, 2010 @ 5:08 pm

    Allen West is the Real Deal! When I talked with JC Watts last month, he singled out West (along with Tim Scott and Bill Hardiman) as an excellent candidate who will be among the 4 or 5 Black Republicans elected to Congress this fall.

  7. Bob Belvedere
    July 5th, 2010 @ 9:37 pm

    WOLVERINES!

  8. Bob Belvedere
    July 5th, 2010 @ 5:37 pm

    WOLVERINES!

  9. ak4mc
    July 5th, 2010 @ 10:02 pm

    GG, why do you hate the University of Michigan?

  10. ak4mc
    July 5th, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

    GG, why do you hate the University of Michigan?

  11. Wondering Jew
    July 5th, 2010 @ 10:18 pm

    Allen West is just the sort of “Change we can believe in”

  12. Wondering Jew
    July 5th, 2010 @ 6:18 pm

    Allen West is just the sort of “Change we can believe in”

  13. Richard McEnroe
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:06 pm

    ak4mc — He’s just upset because they’re not remaking “Wild in the Streets” along with “Red Dawn.”

  14. Richard McEnroe
    July 5th, 2010 @ 7:06 pm

    ak4mc — He’s just upset because they’re not remaking “Wild in the Streets” along with “Red Dawn.”

  15. Richard McEnroe
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:07 pm

    gg — nothing cries alternate-reality fantasy more than a President failing to convince European governments they need to spend more to get out of debt.

  16. Richard McEnroe
    July 5th, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

    gg — nothing cries alternate-reality fantasy more than a President failing to convince European governments they need to spend more to get out of debt.

  17. Natalie
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:09 pm

    Why didn’t THIS man run for President in 2008! He clearly is FOR America, Pro America, Pro the people. God bless him! I sure do hope that Florida will take advantage and clean sweep Col. Allen West straight to the White House. Florida you are blessed to have someone like him! Don’t let him get away. Put him in Washington!!!

  18. Natalie
    July 5th, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

    Why didn’t THIS man run for President in 2008! He clearly is FOR America, Pro America, Pro the people. God bless him! I sure do hope that Florida will take advantage and clean sweep Col. Allen West straight to the White House. Florida you are blessed to have someone like him! Don’t let him get away. Put him in Washington!!!

  19. smitty
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:11 pm

    @Natalie,
    I think that he was still on active duty in the Army.

  20. smitty
    July 5th, 2010 @ 7:11 pm

    @Natalie,
    I think that he was still on active duty in the Army.

  21. Allen West: “I don’t care if they call me an extreeeeemist.” « Si Vis Pacem
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:14 pm

    […] Allen West: “I don’t care if they call me an extreeeeemist.” 2010/07/06 by Ran / Si Vis Pacem Stacy McCain has the scoop. […]

  22. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 6th, 2010 @ 3:16 am

    (N.B.: There are 1+5 e’s in extreeeeemist.)

  23. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 5th, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

    (N.B.: There are 1+5 e’s in extreeeeemist.)

  24. DarthRove
    July 6th, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    @ak4mc, I know why _I_ hate UofM, the cesspool of the world.

  25. DarthRove
    July 6th, 2010 @ 11:33 am

    @ak4mc, I know why _I_ hate UofM, the cesspool of the world.