Rep. Allen West Brutally Slams Opponent Patrick Murphy

Via Legal Insurrection:

Rep. Allen West Delivers Weekly Republican Address, September 15, 2012

Congressman West lays into President Obama with a personalized attack unusual for even these tough partisan times.

And see The Hill, "GOP Rep. West presses Obama to help avert looming defense cuts."

Also at the Heritage Foundation, "Budget Control Act Sequestration Would Hit Defense Hardest."

American Sunrise PAC Attacks Rep. Allan West as Battering Women

Via The Shark Tank, "Super PAC Attack Ad Depicts Allen West Punching White Women."

RELATED: At Legal Insurrection, "Contribute to the Allen West boxing fund."

Rep. Allen West Slams Obama's 'Rule of Edict or Executive Order'

Once again, Congressman West hits a home run:

I think right now, this shows that we are getting away from a government that’s based upon consent of the American people, and we’re starting to live under a rule by edict or executive order...

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'Just Getting Started'

Via Tammy Bruce and Bad Blue.

Representative Allen West's Rising Star

At New York Times, "Conservative Congressman’s Star Power Extends Beyond Florida District":

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Often, the most interesting thing about a person is the characteristic that lies beneath, that hidden thing that bobs up along the waves of time.

But the most compelling part of Representative Allen B. West of Florida is his own biography, there for all to see: an African-American Tea Party activist Republican congressman and ally of hard-right Israelis who, after his beloved career in the Army ended under a cloud, defeated the sitting Democrat in a largely white, politically polarized district here and quickly became one of the right’s most visible spokesmen.

Mr. West’s fans in his district, which stretches over two counties along the east coast of Florida, are both numerous and loud; hundreds fill his town hall-style meetings, many of them favoring T-shirts bearing his image. At a recent Tea Party rally in Washington, supporters flocked to him like sea gulls to a crust of baguette. Among the 87 House Republican freshmen, he ranks third in the latest fund-raising period for his re-election campaign; his $433,551 haul came largely through individual donations.

Mr. West’s popularity among conservatives goes far beyond South Florida. He was chosen to give the keynote speech in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and is frequently featured on the Fox News Channel and in other conservative settings where he enjoys explaining, reiterating or unleashing any number of incendiary remarks concerning what he often calls “the other side.”

There was his recent observation that liberal women “have been neutering American men,” and that the president of the United States is a “low-level socialist agitator.”

Mr. West scoffs at the notion that he has become a sensation. “I don’t drink my own tub water or read my own press,” he said in a brief interview before a town hall-style meeting here this week. “I tell the truth and I stand on convictions and you know what you’re getting.”

While Mr. West’s decision to cast himself as an iconoclast has made him a conservative star, it is unclear how well it will serve him as he seeks re-election next year in this swing district, where far more voters are likely to come out for a presidential election than in the midterm cycle.

More at that link above.

West won election by a tight margin last year, with 50.9 percent of the vote. But incumbents have the advantage, and his fundraising is impressive. But Democrats have West in the crosshairs, so his seat will be one to watch going into 2012.

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