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Allen West Publicly Shames ‘Tracker’ for Following Him to Vietnam Memorial Service

Oct. 30, 2012 12:10pm Becket Adams

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) during a speech at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial on Saturday was in no mood to deal with his Democrat “tracker,” a woman assigned to follow and record his every move, and publicly shamed her for following him to the event.

“There’s a person here that has been tracking me around,” Rep. West said. “She is here for political purposes. And young lady, I ask that you leave. Because you are disrespectful to the men and women who have given themselves to this great nation. We do not need, we do not care for what you are presenting here.”

“So if you have any amount of respect within you, I ask that you leave right now, turn off that camera, and stop using this for political purposes,” he added.

According to Buzzfeed, if you listen closely at the end of the video, it sounds like Rep. West made his tracker a little emotional.

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lynnissmart
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:48pm
She was probably stalking him….and he was tired of it….period!

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Nevermind
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:27pm
Rokytop
Nevermind, we served in the military to protect your right to free speech, and your right to come to a peaceful assembly. Sometimes a memorial service is a memorial service. Would you like your worst enemy to show up at your father’s funeral with a camera to film your loss? Do you think your grief should be filmed and possibly be laughed at later. She was not at the memorial service to film the service, but, was there to try to find a ‘gotcha’ moment. Sorry, I didn’t risk my life for YOUR right to spit on me when I came home. Get over it!
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Get off your high horse slick, i served in the first gulf war so spare me the ” I fought for your freedom” speech. If you did truly serve then you would know that rights are for all americans, not just the ones you happen to agree with . What she did was well within her constitutional rights so if you have issue with that take it up wioth the founding fathers.

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- Rokytop
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:32pm
  You have the right to burn a flag in front of me; but, I also have the right to stop you.
  
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- Rokytop
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:37pm
  You claim she had the right to be there, but West does not the right to point her out? We love progressives. I didn’t see anyone force her to leave. Not like liberals, who only protect the right of people to say what they consider is politically correct.
  
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- Treaty
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:38pm
  That’s the problem with the Democrats – they have no honor.
  
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- ThatsJustCrazyTalk
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:48pm
  @Nevermind: You’re just another hypocrite Progressive fan of the Westboro Baptist church I see. Colonel West was trying to explain that Conservatives don’t constantly stalk bitter Leftists, so bitter Leftists should give us some peace every once in a while. The Demonic Leftist Agenda sticks their noses into Conservative issues even when it has nothing to do with them. Leftist goons like yourself stalk Conservatives to other countries to push your world view agenda. So yes, enough does become enough. Grow some dignity, kid!
  
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- fight_back
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 2:39pm
  @Nevermind
  “If you did truly serve then you would know that rights are for all Americans, not just the ones you happen to agree with”.
  
  Give me a break. Not one of your kind (liberal/socialist/fascists) that can have a civilized discussion for more than 5 minutes. ALL OF YOU turn to personal attacks when the facts and statistics are placed in front of you and your argument is debunked. It happens all the time.
  
  NONE of you can use facts or basic logic to defend your positions! You regurgitate the same talking points as the media, and/or you attempt to quote obscure literature with no relevancy to the topic at hand! You hope by doing this it will mask your obvious lack of intelligence and knowledge of he actual issues. Its funny and sad at the same time!
  
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- hvy_gunner_0331
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:30pm
  First off, to the VN Vets, WELCOME HOME! Thank you for your service, and I hope that you can forgive a People who collectively showed their asses when they should have been embracing you and helping you make the transition back to the World.
  So, the Lefties think that the street goes one way, huh? That only they have the right to exercise their 1st Amendment Rights, and the rest of us just need to sit down and shut up? I don’t think so! Col. West was quite within his own Rights to upbrade the child. Thus endeth the lesson.
  Common decency dictates that there is a time for politics and a time to honor The Fallen. As usual, the progressives and the lefties have thrown ideas of respect and decency into the trash, as shown by the latest Democratic ads (especially that “gem” by His Fatness, M. Moore.
  It’s time for some R and R, and bring back the dignity to the office of the President.
  
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- hvy_gunner_0331
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:34pm
  Speaking of “high horses”, ‘slick’, obviously you weren’t in long enough, or refused to accept that there are some things that common decency demands are sacrosanct, like memorials or ceremonies.
  
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- sheik
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 7:57pm
  Stalking & tracking are ‘constitutional rights?’
  
  LOL!
  
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- imgary3
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:06pm
  He has a right not to be harrassed slick. he is a decorated war hero look it up. he has the same rights you do not to be followed around.
  
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Hickory
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:26pm
Col West always tells it like it is.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:46pm
  the disgraced coward lying uncle tom shouldnt be allowed near a monument
  
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- CapitalismCzar
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 6:47pm
  SWAMP_DONKEY I take exception to your use of Uncle Tom…it is a racist term and seeing as though Rep West is a black man, I say you are a disqusting racist pig. Why is it that libs say everything negative pointed to Obama is racist yet people pointing to Allen West aren’t racist? It make ZERO sense..lay off the koolaid moron.
  
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- Oilfield_Trash
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:19pm
  @ SWAMP_DONKEY
  That the best you can come up with, Uncle Tom? I’d like to see you say it to his face, in a small room.
  
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chkiaar
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:06pm
Hooah!!

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paperpushermj
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:02pm
I Disagree !!!!

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Nevermind
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:58pm
Oneirishman

Great for you. Hey, do us a big favor and come back when you learn to put a sentence together. I feel terrible matching my wits to a regressive ******.
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Peopel who spell check on the internet clearly have way too much time on their hands . Way to duck the point of the post and rather attack the spelling.

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- Rokytop
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:31pm
  A battle of wits with an unarmed oponent?
  
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laserblast92
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:54pm
More then enough proof to prove she has been stalking Allen West for the past 6 months.

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- loriann12
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:57pm
  That’s probably the only job she could find, being paid by Soros to track Col. West. He obviously recognized her or he wouldn’t have called her out. It could have been anyone recording, but he knew her from other locations. And yes, she has a right to free speech, but I didn’t hear her speaking. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him telling her to leave a public campaign event. I did see a video where he called out a stalker, but only to point them out to the crowd. The crowd didn’t even throw her out. I don’t know if it was the same person.
  
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Sparkylong
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:49pm
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Disagree that this was “public humiliation.”

Rather, this was a rebuke.

Humiliation carries a subtle element of weakness in the person who delivers it, with vapors of self-aggrandizement & shallow arrogance. Col. West possesses none of these traits.

A sharply-worded, yet fair, rebuke, is an entirely different animal, & its very essence is one of justice & genuine thought. It is this that was delivered with clarity & firmness by Col. West. Humiliation must resonate within its recipient in order by its very definition; it cannot be commanded.
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- Mstr Smith
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:03am
  WOO HOO! Very nicely said….
  
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Bluefish49
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:44pm
Pure class….and it was awesome the way the people attending backed him and shamed the girl for being the rude little thing she is…..I’m surprised her film got out for all to see….did the Liberals think that we would side with the girl with the camera……not.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:01pm
  IF every member of CONGRESS had the guts of ALLEN WEST we’d have no problems. This GOTCHA technique of the juvenile, immature Liberals is really disgusting and now it has been totally uncovered.
  They have the right to be anywhere, but not to disrupt and take out of context and harass. I didn’t get that she was remorseful at all, but probably had a cold. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when a candidate has no substance to run on (no record, no accomplishments). Thank GOD for people who won’t put up with this anymore! 6+ more days.
  
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- rEt_fiELdoP
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:15pm
  @ Patty Henry…
  
  There are no rights for all to be anywhere one wants to be. To state that is clearly wrong. A citizen of the United States does not have the right to be in a private establishment if said establishment does not want them there. There is nothing anyone can do to help “that person” in that case. Sure, the person can call the cops but the cops will just point out that it is a private establishment and that the owners can ask a person to leave….
  
  Just as in carrying weapons. Even though a person has a license to carry a concealed weapon, he or she does not have the right to be in the establishment with the weapon if management or ownership forbids it. Personal property trumps both situations…
  
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- cykonas
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:40pm
  I’m a fan of Rep. West. I’m a Floridian, but I don’t live in his district so I haven’t ever voted for him. That said, I don’t see where he exhibited any particular “guts” here. He was addressing a friendly crowd and called out the person following him who was apparently unaccompanied. Many against one does not a hero make.
  
  Before anyone gets their panties in a wad, I don’t think he did anything wrong either. His made a request that she leave not a demand for her to leave. The person following him could have stayed and continued her activities unless she was deemed to be a security threat.
  
  It isn’t juvenile and childish to think that if this can be done to this person, that it couldn’t be done to any other person. Including you.
  
  Rep. West should have pointed her out, welcomed her, and then gone forward with his speech as if she wasn’t there. By calling for her to leave he lessened his stature. He appeared to bully her. John Hancock boldly signed his name on the Declaration of Independence so King George could read it without his spectacles. No fear. In a similar vein, Rep. West should have continued his address without respect to who was listening/recording it. Be not afraid, sir, be not afraid. Peace.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:58pm
  CYKONAS
  She was accompanied. Didn’t you hear the last few seconds? A man said “are you leaving or are you gonna stick around?” She said she was leaving. She didn’t HAVE to leave and nobody MADE her leave. She left of her own free will.
  
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- MsgtDavePA
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:11pm
  You know, that is a good question…how did the video get out? She was only one with it, and that Soros crowd surely wouldn’t release a video of Lt Col Allen that showed him in a positive light. Kind of makes me curious.
  
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Mapache
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:43pm
How was the video obtained if she was the one taking it? Just wondering.

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- Oneirishman
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:47pm
  She must have posted it some place.
  
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- Platonician
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Apparently the idiot posted the video herself. Along with another video, where she is being kicked out of a restaurant. These young drones are unpredictable and twisted…
  
  Here is the other video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbk4FDZfgkU&feature=relmfu
  
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Nevermind
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:41pm
So becasue he is bothered byu someone they shoudl leave? We do have a pesky thing he may not like called the constitution which states ‘the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances’” .

According to the constitution she has every right to be there and while he may not like it tough.

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- dblaess
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:57pm
  And that is why Eric Holder will not answer questions and his “security detail” threatens reporters for asking questions. I think I will take your advise to heart and start following Democrats with a camera and if hassled, refer anyone to you. Better yet I know you will be first in line to defend the maker of the video that president Obama claims caused the deaths of 4 Americans in Libya. Best watch out George or whoever you are, there are government eyes watching your posts and even if paid by MMFA at some point you will be put on a list.
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:58pm
  You have a strange idea of the First Amendment.
  
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- Rokytop
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:08pm
  Nevermind, we served in the military to protect your right to free speech, and your right to come to a peaceful assembly. Sometimes a memorial service is a memorial service. Would you like your worst enemy to show up at your father’s funeral with a camera to film your loss? Do you think your grief should be filmed and possibly be laughed at later. She was not at the memorial service to film the service, but, was there to try to find a ‘gotcha’ moment. Sorry, I didn’t risk my life for YOUR right to spit on me when I came home. Get over it!
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:48pm
  She had the right to be there, and he had the right to call her out.
  
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- Dan_o
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:58pm
  She could have stayed. No one laid a hand on her. Maybe next time you want to insult and disrespect a memorial service, send someone who will stand their ground so the rest of us can see (yet again) what dirtbags you and your kind are.
  
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- rEt_fiELdoP
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Wrong wrong wrong…… you have the right to assemble on public domain and IF you have the proper paperwork (geography governance stipuated). You do NOT have the right to assemble on private property.
  
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- garbagecanlogic
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:59pm
  nevermind: She was asked in somewhat of a gentlemanly way to leave. If you are not capable of comprehending the English language, then go take a course somewhere and be a better person for it. No one forced her to leave – nor did they force he to be an idiot and post a video of her being made to look like and idiot. I’m afraid if she had not left on her own, someone may have encouraged her to do so – I would have. Col West is head and shoulders above her tacky obamian kind.
  
  Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
  
  The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
  The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
  
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LibertyAtStake
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:41pm
Let no one forget it was the Left who invented the concept of the “perpetual campaign.” May it be driven back under the rock from which it slithered.

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Gary_K
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:40pm
In otther news….

” Time to Out Sinister Valerie Jarrett ”

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50684

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kickagrandma
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:39pm
You know something? That young woman has been so blessed to have been assigned to Lt. Col (Ret.) Allen West. He has stood his ground with her, never once demeaning her as a person, but always calling out her bad behavior. I know GOD IS WORKING in her life because of Allen West. Let us be as sincere and on target with our criticisms as he; not name calling as children are given to do, but accountability-calling.

May GOD CONTINUE to have MERCY on this country and on our souls in JESUS’ PRECIOUS AND MIGHTY NAME, amen.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:43pm
  Had it been the other way around (a republican tracking a demorat) they might have gotten beaten up by union thugs, as often happens.
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:46pm
  She may have seen the light at that moment.
  
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FEMALL
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:38pm
More shaming and less blaming. When was the last time you heard someone being admonished and told “Shame on you.”? Parents–it begins at home with you.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:27pm
I think Allen finally got to her hardened heart. Beautiful. Allen West is an ALL American Hero in service to the Constitution and We the People. Love this man and all he represents.

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TXGunslinger
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:27pm
That is pure class!

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mamapoo
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:27pm
Everytime that man speaks… I fall in love again. You are my kind of man, Mr West!

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22AUTOMATIC
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:26pm
What can I say, Allen West may be the greatest, most honest, and most honorable member of congress in the past 25 years. Our past generations used shame to curve bad behavior in society and it worked wonderfully. Public humiliation, like this progressive received, is exactly what people need. People who would lie, steal, commit adultery etc. would be publicly shamed. Now they get a reality show. But things are going to change my friends….I can feel it.

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- Oneirishman
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:35pm
  Yes sir. We are going to make things right in America.
  
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Psychosis
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:24pm
why did she get all choked up???

the same reason any child gets all choked up when caught

she knew she was doing something wrong

buh bye commie loser

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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:35pm
  Here’s another example but this time a progressive male is humiliated on camera by shark tank. Very funny. Interesting that in every debate the anti-american or marxist always looses. Example: Rachel Maddow has never won a debate outside of her studio. She was schooled on Real Time, Meet The Press etc. She just stands up and talks faster and louder when she realizes her ideas don’t hold water once challenged with intelligence and honor.
  
  Funny Video Below
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/want-to-see-an-apparently-drunk-heckler-call-allen-west-a-mother-fer-and-give-awful-history-lesson-on-conservatism/
  
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smokeysmoke
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:24pm
wow you see democrats only feel powerful when they have a clip of you that they take out of context and make a joke out of over and over….. when they are the joke they just cry and cry… ahahahah

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huey6367
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:21pm
You go Allen.

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Watermain
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:19pm
Oh, Col. West, you handled that so much better than I would have. I still remember vividly getting spit on in the San Francisco airport on my return from Vietnam. I think the haters were there all the time trolling for returning GI’s. Thank you again for your service, sir.

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- jpy007
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Thank you, Watermain for your service!!!
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:29pm
  Welcome home WATERMAIN. Thank you.
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:34pm
  Just joining JPY in thanking you for your service Watermain. THANK YOU
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 1:42pm
  WATERMAIN, I agree, and thank you for serving and putting up with what happened to you. I have an uncle who is retired from the Army and was spit on too in San Francisco when he returned from Vietnam. But horror of horrors he is a liberal Democrat. It took me years to discover that and since I have never figured him out. I am so sorry that you had to put up with that.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:18pm
I love Col. West !

I would vote for him as Pres. I would follow him into battle !

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- Watermain
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Ditto to both!
  
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- tweetybird
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:28pm
  @ Gary_K
  
  I too would vote for him for president. He is one honorable guy. I just love him.
  
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- Oneirishman
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:38pm
  Agreed, nice to know people like him are with us.
  
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cathynboernetx
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:15pm
Gotta love a man who isn’t afraid of doing the right thing all the time…

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- justangry
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:18pm
  Oh that would be wonderful is such a man existed.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:19pm
  Alan West is one of the Best. Too bad the Obamas did not have this man’s sense of fairness and honor. They could have been great, but now they are the scourage of America.
  
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- Watermain
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:24pm
  @just: Col. West comes pretty close in my mind.
  
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- Gary_K
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:25pm
  justangry
  
  You sir, wouldn’t recognize one !
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 12:32pm
  I think he betrayed his oath to defend the Constitution based on his voting record. It’s sad that you don’t share my concern for our rights he voted away.
  
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