Rep. Allen West reaffirms statement calling Dems ‘communists’

Red Alert Politics ^ | April 17, 2012 | John Rossomando

[DBeers]

Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., isn’t backing down from comments he made at a fundraiser two weeks ago calling members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “communists.” In fact, he’s coming out swinging.

West received considerable media criticism for his remarks, and the CPC immediately denounced him and denied it has connections with the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America or any other socialist group.

“We completely disavow it,” Jennifer Gore, communications director for CPC Chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said.

Many on the left accused him of evoking the “ghost of Joe McCarthy’s ulcerous accusation.”

Various members of the CPC have maintained unofficial ties with the DSA over the years, and the DSA formerly maintained a page dedicated to supporting much of the CPC’s agenda on its website until a few years ago.

“I don’t regret it whatsoever,” West told Red Alert Politics Tuesday at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by a new congressional organization calling itself Conversations with Conservatives. “I think that if you were to take the time to study the political spectrum of ideologies at the turn of the century, American communists renamed themselves as progressives.

“If you study the Woodrow Wilson, people referred to the Woodrow Wilson administration as ‘a progressive administration,’” West continued. “Now I would hope maybe you in media would do a little bit of research and look at political ideologies and what they stand for.”

[Windcatcher]

See my tagline...

[Inwoodian]

To all who have never read a McCarthy bio I strongly recommend the M. Stanton Evans book of a couple of years ago, “Blacklisted by History.” There should be monuments raised for tail-gunner Joe and cells swept out for many a Democrat.

[Gator113]

Thanks, I’ll take a look at it.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Will they put West on the ticket and put the FIRE back into this election? Nahhh, that would be asking too much of the GOP, they’ll need a set of b@lls to accomplish that.

[UCANSEE2]

I'm going to write-in either Allen West or Herman Cain for the next Presidential Vote.

I don't care what race of human our next President is, I just want him to be an American. And all the white guys we are being forced to choose from suck. Am I right?

[TexasRepublic]

There is nothing like pruning the family tree and other associations to communicate the seriousness of it. We live in troubled times that are going to shake the foundations of our society and require hard decisions. Who is for freedom, and who is against it?