Caption this pic on Rep. Allen West (R-Crazytown)'s Facebook page

[Tommy_Carcetti]

The story:

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/04/allen_west_john_wayne.php

Today, in nonsensical patriotic imagery from the GOP: Congressman Allen West has photoshopped himself into a picture with John Wayne.


The politician who goes SCUBA diving with American flags has now officially co-opted "The Duke." How long until Captain America shows up to a fundraiser playing Toby Keith songs on a guitar strung with hairs from Osama bin Laden's ponytail?


It's the first high-profile endorsement of the 2012 election cycle to be made by the ghost of a movie star, and it's definitely the first endorsement of an African-American by the ghost of a self-proclaimed white supremacist.


Wayne, an independent-minded conservative, had plenty of reasonable political views -- but he also declared, in his infamous 1971 interview with Playboy, that "we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility."
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I'm beginning to think Mr. West has some very serious manhood issues.....

[COLGATE4]

1. "What do you mean WE cowboys are surrounded, Allen?"

[Ganja Ninja]

2. "Boys, fetch a rope."

If Allen West were alive in the old west he wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes.

[iemitsu]

3. actually i out of 4 cowboys in the "old west"

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was black. the frontier has always been a place where people are judged by their contributions to the group rather than by prejudice. that is why states like wyoming and montana were in the forefront of granting women the right to vote.

[Hugabear]

16. I think that the Chinese, Irish, African-Americans, etc might tend to argue with that statement

It's not like the Old West was color-blind

[iemitsu]

19. no the old west was not color blind

but ethnic minorities found more acceptance on the frontier than in more settled areas, at least until they were perceived as taking jobs from whites.

[FarLeftFist]

4. Didn't he also dodge a draft?

[sinkingfeeling]

5. "The Duke's my twin brother. We share the same values."

[JHB]

6. Let's not forget John Wayne was a draft dodger...

He cemented his top leading-man status during WW2, in no small part because every other leading-man-grade actor in Hollywood joined the armed forces: Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford in the Navy, Clarke Gable in the Army Air Corps. Even Ronald Reagan, who spent the war in Hollywood due to hearing loss, was part of an Army Air Corps training film unit.
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/military/actors_in_wwii.html

Wayne even got his lawyer to get him a draft exemption as an "essential" worker.

Just a reminder that an actor's characters are not the man.

[hobbit709]

7. West is a war criminal so he might as well associate himself with a draft dodger.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. If you think about it....

.....West plays the part of a brave, distinguished military man. However, given that he retired from the Army in disgrace after torturing a detainee and that he was so afraid of losing his congressional seat that he bailed on it to run in another district, he's nothing more than an actor as well. A bad one at that.

[bettydavis]

8. from PE

"sucka was staright out racist simple and plain, motha f**k him and John Wayne" - Chuck D

[pinboy3niner]

9. "I'm just here for the $9.99 pizza deal, Pilgrim"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Someone tell this Pilgrim and that Bachmann character to stop admiring me. I'm not a serial killer.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. And I'm not the guy whose wife cut off his Johnson, either! nt

[DefenseLawyer]

12. This is the picture he was looking for

[Ikonoklast]

14. Has anyone told Allen West yet that he is, indeed, Black?

And that many of his Right Wing Heroes despise him for the color of his skin, not because he's a raving lunatic?

[raouldukelives]

15. "Wanna guess where I tied my yellow ribbon"."

[Hugabear]

17. "Don't worry, Duke, I hate Obama just as much as you would."

n/t

[GreydeeThos]

18. Front man paid to express fiction before an audience - the other is a cardboard cut of an actor

Brainless, two-dimensional, front man paid to express fiction before an audience - the other is a cardboard cutout of an actor.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. LOL. nt

[unkachuck]

20. "Don't vote for this man to my right. He hasn't been educated to the point of resposibility."....n/t

[arthritisR_US]

22. Have you met my date?