Allen West Quotes
It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.
West, Allen. Campaign Press Release. Allen West for Congress, 12 Sept. 2012.
Republican candidates at that time, in order to win the nomination of the party, had to prove to the base of primary voters that they were strong conservatives. In doing so, they had to adopt policies and views that were too far to the right for most American voters and they would lose the general election.
Whether or Not the Democratic Speeches Against the manner in which the Union was conducting the Civil War was aiding the South of just fair political criticism has been debated since the war itself. This is one piece of evidence.
Allen Bernard West is an American politician, and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. A member of the Republican Party, West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and has served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas since 2020.