Sorry, but there is something awful ingrateful about this statement:

“What’s going on today is a sham,” said Tim Edson, West’s campaign manager said in a press release. “It does nothing to resolve our concerns… What was originally viewed as dangerous incompetence on the part of [St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections] Gertrude Walker now appears more and more like a willful attempt to steal the election for Patrick Murphy.”

via Newsmax-  West Gains Votes in Partial Recount, But Still Behind.

Sorry, but this sounds like Allen West believes that he is entitled to be in the Senate. Why? Because he is black, or maybe Because he was in the Military? The cold, hard, sober truth is that Allen West has made some very idiotic statements that even had me shuttering. If the man lost the election, he ought to just take his lumps and come back and try again for some other office.

Instead, he will go the tin-foil hat route and make a complete fool of himself and become a hero and do the martyr for freedom bit and become a hero among the WorldNetDaily crowd and the Alex Jones folk too.

Again, this goes back to what I said before:

I think another problem with the GOP and the Conservative movement as a whole is that some Conservatives and Republicans have a penchant for simply making things up, that they know not to be true. This is common in politics and both sides do it, to a certain degree. It is called “scaremongering” and to me, as a Christian man; it just strikes me as morally wrong. If the Republican Party and the Conservative movement is a truly a socially Conservative movement, that they claim to be. Then they should really get the whole “telling the truth” thing down pat and stop with the scaremongering nonsense. Fact checking is not a sin, and it should be a top priority. Because we can get much further with the American people, with the simply, clear-eyed truth; than we can with scaremongering and stupidity. Most people, these days, with the internet; can fact check quicker than most politicos can! Although, there is that segment that believes the chain letters can go out via e-mail, than they do when someone tells them the plain truth. The Conservative Movement needs to be less chain letter, and more factual arguments. Boogieman headlines might bring profits to those who promote them; but it does not win elections.

Another thing that is on my mind, that goes along with the above paragraph; is that we simply need to remove the Alex Jones element to the Conservative movement. Alex Jones is a nothing more than a damned charlatan. Jones caters to particular group of people, commonly known as the “tin-foil” hat crowd. For years, nobody ever, in the political world, ever took that guy seriously. This was, until Obama got into the White House and then from that moment on, it was full on Alex Jones in the Conservative movement! I really began to notice this, when Matt Drudge began linking to Alex Jones and added him to his list of sites on his website. This, I feel, was an tragic error. The Conservative movement should be known for its disdain for big Government and its refuting of the idea that socialism is not the ideal path forward; and not for its promoting of idiotic conspiracy theories.

Allen West was horrible for spouting off stuff that he did not know one hundred percent to be true. Because of this the independent voters moved away from him and voted for the other guy. This ought to be a textbook lesson to the grassroots. The lesson is this; never go around saying outlandish stuff in the media. Because while it might make you look good to your base. Everyone else, is going to believe that you are some sort of a fruit loop.

In politics, it pays to be sober, clear-minded and to tell the truth and to MAKE DARNED SURE you ARE telling the truth and not some cockamamie conspiracy theory.  It is sad that Allen West had to learn this the hard way; but those are the breaks in politics. Some people learn quick and some people; get voted out.