Delicious. Staring with:
Congressman West made a big splash on South Florida’s political scene as a buffoonish bitter commando who wanted to “take our country back from tyrants.”
Most of you are at least aware, on a cursory level if not acutely, of Allen West, one of the worst of the worst of the 2010 influx of Teabagger crazies.
From the article linked above, more deliciousness:
There’s a limited shelf life for paranoid lectures on Marxism, Saul Alinsky’s playbook, and secret Communists in Congress. And before long, it dawned on an electorally significant number of his constituents that they were stuck with an arrested-development congressman who is more of a WWF version of Sarah Palin than a problem solver.
Well, he lost his bid for re-election (after having moved from my district up to a new district, FL - 18). And Patrick was a newcomer and facing difficult odds and a whole lot of opposition money:
His campaign had a staggering $17 million to spend. And the only Democrat standing in his way was an unknown 29-year-old challenger named Patrick Murphy, a political novice who could be outspent five to one.
This was asymmetrical warfare.
Murphy had little going for him, and to make matter worse, he had the misfortune of getting arrested at age 19 during a boozy night in Miami Beach — the same time that West was shipping out with the Army to Iraq.
Patrick Murphy's lead is about 2500 votes. The margin is OUTSIDE the mandatory recount trigger.
But, West contends all sorts of shenanigans must have gone on and he wants a recount. From an email I received for Patrick's campaign this morning:
Not sure if you have heard, but even before Election Day ended, Allen West has been making false accusations about the electoral process. He is refusing to concede and claims the result is illegitimate. West has over $2 million in the bank, has hired teams of lawyers, and has filed two lawsuits.
If anyone is so inclined to help Allen West GO THE FUCK AWAY, throw a few bucks to
Patrick's victory fund and help him end this.
This was a sweet, sweet victory. Let's help Patrick get to his well deserved and hard earned victory party ...