Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Predicts That I Will Lose in 2014
I am a second-term Member of Congress. I am not Minority Leader, Minority Whip, or Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. I am not a ranking Democratic Member of any House Committee or Subcommittee. I do not hold any position with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Despite my seeming insignificance, however, a lot of extreme right-wingers seem desperate – utterly desperate - to remove me from office.
Take Col. Allen West, for instance. West said recently, on Fox News, that he "prays" for my defeat in 2014. And take Fox News's host Bill O'Reilly. In the same interview, Bill O'Reilly predicted that I will lose in 2014.
Who is Allen West? While serving in Iraq, West had his soldiers arrest an Iraqi police officer, and beat the living daylights out of him. Then, for good measure, West took out his own gun, and shot it right next to the Iraqi police officer's ear. West was convicted of violating the Military Code of Conduct, fined $5000, and ushered out of the U.S. Army.
West somehow parlayed that experience into a seat in Congress, proving that there is fine, fine line between fame and infamy. During West's one term in Congress, he:
-- denounced Democrats as "chicken men,"
-- said that "about 78 to 81" Democratic Congressman are "members of the Communist Party,"
-- characterized Obama supporters as "a threat to the gene pool,"
-- called Rep. Keith Ellison the "antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established" simply because Ellison is Muslim, and
-- called Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, "the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives."
Allen West then lost the 2012 election, and I won, which represents the most massive upgrade in "Allens" in U.S. history.
After the election, Fox News hired West as a paid bloviator. To justify paying West, Fox puts him in front of a camera from time to time. A few weeks ago, West appeared on Bill O'Lie-ly's show – sorry, Bill O'Reilly's show. I don't have to tell you much about Bill O'Reilly – Sen. Al Franken wrote a whole book about him, entitled "Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."
So anyway, by way of introduction, O'Reilly went off on a bizarre tirade about me, calling me "crazy," "unbalanced," and "the most extreme Democrat in Congress." It's hard to tease any sort of coherent message out of what O'Reilly was saying, but he seemed to be very, very upset that "the unions love" me, and that I'm a "liberal man."
O'Reilly asked West about my prospects in the 2014 election. West said that I have "a pretty good challenger coming up against [me] in this next 2014 cycle." Referring to me, O'Reilly said: "He is going to lose next November. He is going to lose. I predict it now." West responded that West "prays" for my defeat.
One hopes that West's prayers will be no more effective in 2014 than they were in 2012, when West lost his own reelection campaign. My guess is that God, like a lot of people, stopped listening to Allen West a long time ago.
And yet . . . . Here we are, still almost a year before the 2014 election, and the Right Wing's "big guns" already are assailing me, and assailing me viciously. Yesterday, I told you about Mike Huckabee's attack on me. Today, it's Bill O'Reilly and Allen West. They want so bad to beat us.
Tomorrow is our FEC report cut-off date. We are under attack. It's time for us to circle the wagons, and return fire. I need your help, and I need it now. We need to hire canvassers, collect petitions, set up phone banks and hand out campaign literature – right away. Every dollar counts. Our deadline is midnight tomorrow. Please contribute today.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
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Pray that he will run for president in 2016...
And i predict that he will WIN!!!
(please please sir...the people are starved for real leadership like you show!)
I hope you take that as I mean it. 
