Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.
Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter.
"We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "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. 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."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/allen-west-liberals-get-out-florida-primary-2012_n_1239247.html
SugarShack
(1,635 posts)JCMach1
(27,544 posts)raging_moderate
(147 posts)He just convinced me to donate to Lois Frankel. Feel free to do the same.
pocoloco
(3,180 posts)The reason the US was both created and lost.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)what a completely gutless shitsucking cretin.
liberalmuse
(18,670 posts)Amen.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Put on a song and dance (literally in Cains case) for the rethugs, all to earn their praise. The rethugs then point to them to claim they're not racist.
SaintPete
(533 posts)If he's doing a song and dance, it's coming from the wretched recesses of his intolerant heart
Warpy
(110,903 posts)Lars77
(3,032 posts)Europe really is a cussword for republicans isnt it?
You have no idea how funny that sounds to a European when republicans speak like that.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)the same feeling that someone who has lived in America their whole life has the same perspective about Repugs and their jingoistic view of others.
Repugs personify most all the spectrum of silly and stupid mental health. The word projection comes to mind with anything they say!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Actually, I doubt I could have ever, in a million years, come up with such an accurate description. I promise to use "gutless shitsucking cretin" at least once this week.
I nominate cliffordu for Most Colorful Namecaller of the week.
BadGimp
(4,009 posts)Thx
icarusxat
(403 posts)marasinghe
(1,253 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)This shit makes my blood boil when one party or the other thinks they own the country and have the right to request exile for the opposition. I generally despise Republicans, but I don't deny they're fellow Americans.
I don't suggest deporting this overzealous moran, but I do wish him a speedy retirement from office followed by a long quiet life of obscurity.
On edit:
He has a lot of nerve using the words "United States Of America" when he's working overtime to divide it.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...of "anti-class warfare". Nothing says "unity" better than suggesting an entire section of our country take their message to the bottom of an ocean.
He's a disgrace to his race. The human race that is.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)for sedition...
Joe Bacon
(5,163 posts)Because he sure is off his meds!
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Amonester
(11,541 posts)Rwanda genocide suspect Mugesera deported from Canada
http://www.canada.com/news/Rwanda+genocide+suspect+Mugesera+deported+from+Canada/6043967/story.html
In case he wants to educate himself...
hyphenate
(12,496 posts)urge to giggle?
I guess this is only one more sign that the little critters known by the initials GOP are imploding faster than we can blink the eye.
I think this is hilarious.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Crown Their New King, I'm Taking this B.E.T to Vegas. 50 to 1 odds.
DallasNE
(7,392 posts)Therefore, I have a dog in this fight too meaning I am going nowhere. Tell me that to my face and I just might have to entertain the idea of applying my hand to your face in some fashion in self-defense because those are fighting words, not free speech. You may think you are Joseph McCarthy but you are a cheap, clueless imitation.
provis99
(13,062 posts)Allen West is as anti-American as you can get. He shits all over the founding values of the country and the Constitution.
era veteran
(4,069 posts)Fuck you West, you were a dishonorable officer too. Pig
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)"The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles. It states in general terms, and courts have referred to it as reliable evidence of, the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they hoped the Constitution would achieve."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Anyone sworn into a governmental office has taken the oath to defend our Constitution. Allen West has just broken his oath.
Unaccountable entrepreneurial freedom is not part of our Constitution. It is not part of ordinary business law. In a civil society everyone is accountable to just and fair practices.
Tripod
(854 posts)Now what, more of this bickering! Lets just get the job done.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)the big difference is that today many Liberals are 'conditioned' to think they are conservative by a co-opted public media that is controlled, effectively, by conservative interests.
Tripod
(854 posts)abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Ya fucking asshole. Although of course, the REAL problem is all the other assholes and assorted idiots who voted for him. As I've said here before, jackasses like West are simply the symptom. Their voters/supporters are the real disease.
RUMMYisFROSTED
(30,749 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)barbtries
(28,702 posts)it's just disgusting. land of the free is NOT what they're about.
the word fascist is thrown around way too much, but there are a handful of people that do talk like fascists and Allen West is one of them.
sarchasm
(1,009 posts)... as tweeted by former Reid spokesman Jim Manley.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)I just watched this on C-SPAN. What a wanker.
He had the nerve to say, after telling us to get the hell out of America, to say that this is not about 99% and 1%, it was about 100% American. To have any African-American leader stand up and say something right out of the 1920's KKK slogan book is nothing short of incredible.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)DFW
(54,051 posts)With himself as Head Fiend.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)marmar
(76,982 posts)Evasporque
(2,133 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,300 posts)Riley18
(1,127 posts)the 1%. We need to vote them all out. Our country deserves better.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)with a good tan. On top of being "retired" (asked to leave on his own or else) for abusing (torturing)prisoners, West is an embarrassment and teahaddist. Oh yeah, one more thing, he's a punk. I anxiously await his gay lovers to release the pictures.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)You sir, have just grossly insulted gay men everywhere.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)Make him talk about it.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)We're America, asshole; love it or leave it yourself.
Patrick_Bateman
(47 posts)Incidentally, Aresenio Hall called and wants his hair cut back.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)mgc1961
(1,263 posts)I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
West really likes the word hell, doesn't he? He was probably a lousy soldier hence his immature response to criticism of these Marines. The "they did it first" justification is very similar to the response my brother and I gave our parents when we got into fights as little boys.
tonybgood
(218 posts)Pointing out that others have done the same or worse to Americans doesn't excuse doing wrong yourself. Supposedly, that's what makes America different from those who would do such things. That's why Bush 43 and Cheney need to be sent to the Hague; they are admitted war criminals!!!
4dsc
(5,787 posts)Shows the sad nature of GOP politics today.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Too bad West doesn't realize (or chooses to misstate) the fact that equality of opportunity is much stronger in Europe than in the US. It is also true as he says that "equality of achievement" (in the sense of more equality in the income distribution) is better in Europe, but Americans don't think that is a bad thing if you look at surveys.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Doc Holliday
(719 posts)Europe proves that socialism can work.
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)When he loses in November, Fox News will give him a rich contract. That's what the creep is all about.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)(Coming from that guy)
unkle
(1 post)and I do mean all the respect you are due, up yours.
CRK7376
(2,187 posts)not a full Colonel! Amongst the military, courtsey is often rendered by most service personnel, by addressing a Lieutenant Colonel as Colonel, but the LTCs do not answer the phone as "Colonel". Same with Lieutenants, regardless if they are a 2nd or 1st LT, second being the lower rank. My wife always laughed at me when folks addressed me as "Colonel" when I was a Lieutenant Colonel...One of those quirky traits the military and press use when talking to active or retired military. I practically scream at the TV when they interview and thank talking heads as "Colonel" when they are LTCs....Especially, now that I too am a full Colonel....West is a clown and my Army is so much better off with out him...! I feel sorry for you folks in Florida that are represented by him.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,083 posts)The man was forced to retire after engaging in a mock execution on an innocent Iraqi detainee. He's very lucky he wasn't court martialed. Yet he is insistent upon bring up his military service every possible waking moment, my guess as a matter of overcompensation, because the man left the Army in shame.
man4allcats
(4,026 posts)he didn't say that to liberals. He said it to Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the chairman of the DNC. I will admit though that he probably meant it to apply to liberals.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Marthe48
(16,691 posts)Conservatives say they want less government, less regulation. They just want to force everyone who doesn't agree with them into a box with no ways out. I want all the options to make my life work, and I don't want to make you do anything that you don't want to do. Am I going to use all the options? No, and I am not going to limit somebody else who might need those options.
Basically this: America is the place in the world where you go for freedom, opportunity, and equality. If you can't deal with those qualities, you don't belong in public office, and if you try to subvert those qualities laid out in the Constitution, you're a traitor. The end.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Mosaic
(1,451 posts)Of such a useless person.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)BootinUp
(46,924 posts)He won't last too long. Some days I am amazed he has gotten this far.
judesedit
(4,437 posts)will". He'd be funny if he wasn't serious. He's the one who needs to leave this country, so we can have equality for ALL, regulated criminal enterprises, help one another, especially our children, elderly, sick, autistic due to their over use of chemicals in our water, land and air, and veterans...you know, the sons and daughters of everyone else who go and fight their dirty wars for them. West is just another uncaring, unfeeling, greedy, ignorant bastard to put it mildly. Get that creep outta here.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)What a delusional hypocrite.
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deutsey
(20,166 posts)and go live out his libertarian conservative wet dream in Somalia.
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rug
(82,333 posts)Doc Holliday
(719 posts)"Fuck you."
That's all. Just fuck you.
donco
(1,548 posts)I spent four years of my life fighting for this country in the United States Marine Corps.How about you moving to Somalia instead;i heard that they have a lowtax unregulated economy their.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)you dont like what it has become ---- you leave
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)that I actually AM tempted to move to Europe. If only I could afford it, or had a degree, or any certainty of finding work there. Of course Europe includes quite a bit, doesn't it? England, maybe Ireland... always wanted to see Wales.
Now though, the austerity measures being enforced, the downgrading of the economy... Europe is struggling and has struggled fiercely. We'll likely face far worse in time, given the fact that we have such "leaders" as West... and that they are actually taken seriously, by any thinking person. From my understanding there is another global economic crisis on the horizon, if what the experts say is anything to go by (which I'm never entirely certain of...)
Tell you what you can do with your message though, West. Go join the Taliban, you have a hell of a lot in common with them.
Pakid
(478 posts)This man and his kind are what is wrong with America today. It seem that they believe that they own America and it is there way and only there way that matters. Bull Shit West I to pay taxes, in fact I pay part of your share and for good measure I also pay your wages and health care so West KISS MY LIBERAL ASS !!!!!!!!!!!
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)These types prove how nuts they are when they brand Obama and other leading dems as socialists, marxists, etc. You hear that and wonder what planet are they living on.
Hey Allen, check out where the highest marginal tax rate was under Eisenhower, a republican.
When I ponder insane statements like this I always wonder if they actually believe their rantings or are just doing it for the cash.
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New7up
(19 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts)As it will if left to idiots like you. Perhaps progressives should leave, and watch as the US becomes Somalia of the West.
Why can't Progressives do the Atlas Shrugged thing, and watch while you either sink or generate some Progressives of your own, as you inevitably will as the nation sinks toward 4th world status.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I mean the Rednecks were saying this shit back in the 60s
"LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, YOU DIRTY HIPPIES!!"
There must be something about being a Right Wing idiot
that alters the chemistry in the brain such that it goes into
"broken record mode", clinging onto citing shit that some
idiot said decades ago.
Go figure.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,083 posts)....oh wait, I think Mr. West might enjoy that.
craigmatic
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rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Time to Refill Your Anti-Psychotic Medicine Prescriptions
rocktivity
Obama3_16
(157 posts)He should be destroyed in 2012 election.