Sarah Palin’s ‘rogue’ pick for VP: Allen West

[Zorro]

Submitted for your amusement.

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Sarah Palin says there’s one name at the top of her list if the Republican Party wants to “go rogue” in its pick for the vice presidential nominee: Rep. Allen West.

The former vice presidential candidate told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the Florida Republican would be a great choice for the 2012 ticket. She argued that the eventual presidential nominee shouldn’t “think they have to go with somebody necessarily safe.”

“Top of my list is Allen West,” she said. “I love that he has that military experience. He is a public servant willing to serve for the right reasons. He understands the Constitution. He understands our national foreign policy issues that must be addressed. He has served. I really like him. There are so many, Sean, that are out there. And when I talk about going rogue, what I want to do is encourage the GOP nominee to not think that they have to go with somebody necessarily safe that conventional wisdom perhaps would lead somebody to believe that, if it’s somebody, quote-unquote, safe, that they’re not going to get beat up by the media, because no matter who it is.”

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74808.html#ixzz1r57ANcN4

[immoderate]

1. I second Sister Sarah's choice.

Rep. West is certainly a great choice for the Republicans.


--imm

[livetohike]

2. The words "conventional wisdom" and Sarah Palin do not belong

in the same article . She's an idiot. But please pick Allen West. Largest landslide in history.

[LiberalFighter]

18. I wonder how many will not vote because they hate "blacks".

And if West was the pick by them would think they have a hard time holding their nose and voting repug.

[WI_DEM]

3. yes, I agree! We all saw how 'going rogue' helped the GOP in 2008

[tanyev]

4. Yes, please! C'mon, Mitt! Take $arah's savvy advice.

You know you and Allen would get along great with one another.

[hlthe2b]

5. That lying exploitative self-serving POS

As much contempt as I have for Palin, it pales with what I have for West.

But, yes, it does amuse me to think of West and Mitt trying to "get on"....

[Turbineguy]

6. Interesting.

It would be a gauge of just how self-destructive Americans are.

[polichick]

7. Psycho Sarah and Nutjob West deserve each other.

[LiberalFighter]

19. I wonder what it would take for nutjob to go totally over the edge?

I wish I knew more of what Joe McCarthy was like and how the two would compare.

[Lucy Goosey]

8. I would really love to see that.

By all means, give West a national platform.

I also love this classic Palin word-salad sentence structure fail:

And when I talk about going rogue, what I want to do is encourage the GOP nominee to not think that they have to go with somebody necessarily safe that conventional wisdom perhaps would lead somebody to believe that, if it’s somebody, quote-unquote, safe, that they’re not going to get beat up by the media, because no matter who it is.

[Arkana]

16. Translation: "I have learned absolutely nothing from 2008."

[hifiguy]

9. Um-hmm. Just look at what Mooselini did

for McGrump's campaign and multiply that by a factor of about 1,000.

[JoePhilly]

10. Just wow.

[DFW]

11. That was from Politico??

I would have thought it was from the Onion.

Just shows you--no matter HOW hard we may try make Republicans look ridiculous......they are better at it than we are.

[BlueState]

12. She really had to stretch...

...to try and find someone to make her look a little less batshit crazy!

[vaberella]

13. When I read the name Allen West, I thought The 60s Batman? nt

[Drunken Irishman]

14. Adam West.

[Arkana]

15. The moronic, unarmed Iraqi-torturing semi-war criminal who's so stupid

that he thinks that people will believe the economy is getting better because businesses are anticipating a Republican Presidency?

[lastlib]

17. America, Listen to Sarah, Queen of Babble-on!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Yes, that will really help Romney win over the women's vote

Isn't West the one who sent an e-mail to his Democratic female House colleague Debbie Wasserman Schultz telling her she was "vile" and that she should shut up, just because she opposed him on legislation?

Yes, Palin, going rogue once again would be brilliant.

[Liber-AL]

21. West wouldn't last five minutes as VP...

He'd have the ranking member of the Democrats on the floor with a gun to his head at the first sign of a disagreement!

[LeftishBrit]

22. Allen West? PLEASE not.