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You are here: Home / Allen West’s Big Medicare Lie

Allen West’s Big Medicare Lie

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  October 15, 201211:16 am| 30 Comments

This post is in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell

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Allen West is getting desperate. So desperate that he is accusing his opponent — who has never been elected to Congress — of cutting Medicare.

Yes. Allen West is telling Florida voters that his never-been-elected opponent Patrick Murphy cut Medicare.

He thinks you’re stupid, Florida, and he thinks he can get away with bald-faced lying.

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  1. 1.

    Dork

    October 15, 2012 at 11:18 am

    At least he didn’t accuse him of throwing spears.

  2. 2.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    October 15, 2012 at 11:19 am

    They’re all pulling pages from the Rmoney Campaign Playbook:

    Be a lying sack of shit 24/7 and count on the press to

    a) Not call you out on it, and
    b) Be afraid to call you out on it because they’re scared of the wingnuts.

    Wash, rinse, repeat.

  3. 3.

    peach flavored shampoo

    October 15, 2012 at 11:20 am

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida

    With respect to disturbingly large portions of the Florida populace, he’d be dead-on correct.

  4. 4.

    wrb

    October 15, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Send Patrick Murphy back to Kenya.

  5. 5.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    October 15, 2012 at 11:23 am

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida…

    There is a solid precedent at play here, you know…

    After all the state did elect Lex Luthor as its governor…

  6. 6.

    feebog

    October 15, 2012 at 11:26 am

    I’m hoping we hit the national trifecta on November 6, Walsh, Bachman and West all out on their collective asses. And for a bonus, King from Iowa out as well.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    October 15, 2012 at 11:33 am

    I threw some money at Murphy a few weeks ago. If you can spare it, give him 5 or 10 bucks.

    I’d so love to see West go down in Nov.

    Steve King has a solid opponent too (Vilsack), so if you want to try to defeat that asshole go and give her a few bucks too.

  8. 8.

    max

    October 15, 2012 at 11:38 am

    What peach flavored shampoo said.

    The DCCC has decided to support Jim Graves against Bachmann. It’d be nice if they’d help out Murphy too.

    max
    [‘Would I be a bad person if I admitted that I’m kind of enjoying watching the R’s openly display all that crap that I figured was floating around their degraded souls?’]

  9. 9.

    lacp

    October 15, 2012 at 11:44 am

    West got elected once, no reason to think the same folks won’t elect him again.

  10. 10.

    redshirt

    October 15, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Post Truth! It’s our new reality.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 15, 2012 at 11:48 am

    West is a war criminal who should be in prison, not Congress.

    Go Patrick Murphy!

  12. 12.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    October 15, 2012 at 11:49 am

    WOuld it be safe to say that West is torturing the truth here?

  13. 13.

    jo6pac

    October 15, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Repug tv ads in Northen Calli are doing the same thing.

  14. 14.

    John

    October 15, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Maybe he’s thinking of the Patrick Murphy from Pennsylvania.

  15. 15.

    John

    October 15, 2012 at 11:56 am

    @lacp:

    But it’s a different group of people, thanks to redistricting, and turnout is very different in presidential years than off-years.

  16. 16.

    Citizen Alan

    October 15, 2012 at 11:56 am

    @lacp:

    I’m pretty sure it’s not the same folks. Didn’t his district change to become bluer?

  17. 17.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    October 15, 2012 at 11:59 am

    @John:

    From a NYT piece back in July:

    The newly drawn 18th Congressional District voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 and for Alex Sink, the Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for governor, in 2010. In 2004, George W. Bush won with 51 percent.

  18. 18.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    October 15, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    If the media doesn’t come down hard on West then we know what future elections are going to look like. The hands-off attitude towards Romney/Ryan’s lies is disturbing enough, this takes it to a whole new level.

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    October 15, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    @The Republic of Stupidity: Too soon? We should just be walking on by after all.

  20. 20.

    Chris

    October 15, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    So’s Oliver North and so should he be. It’s not war crimes if you’re American.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    October 15, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    @Chris:

    It’s not war crimes if you’re American.

    I suspect that it would be war crimes if he were a Democrat. Or is that saying the same thing because everyone knows Democrats aren’t Real Americans(TM) anyway?

  22. 22.

    Davis X. Machina

    October 15, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    I suspect that it would be war crimes if he were a Democrat

    The usual Democratic war crime is not enough providing enough war… even when we try to meet them half-way, as in the Balkans. (Cf. McCain and Co, ca. 1998…)

  23. 23.

    Scratchie

    October 15, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Um, not to rain on anybody’s parade, but did anyone in this comment thread actually watch the commercial in question? Are you unfamiliar with the meaning of the word “would”?

  24. 24.

    Chris

    October 15, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Or is that saying the same thing because everyone knows Democrats aren’t Real Americans™ anyway?

    Prezactly.

    @Davis X. Machina:

    The usual Democratic war crime is not enough providing enough war… even when we try to meet them half-way, as in the Balkans. (Cf. McCain and Co, ca. 1998…)

    Actually, our big crime in the Balkans was that we didn’t side with Milosevic. Because he would have exterminated all those stinking hajjis in Kosovo and Bosnia, and then the world would be a better place.

    No, really. That’s not a parody. That exact argument crops up on wingnut blogs now and again.

    (I suppose it would be too much for them to scratch their heads and riddle me WHY it is that al-Qaeda & co have had so much less success recruiting from the Balkans than from other parts of the world for their Death-To-America crusade. Whatever the reason is, we can be certain Bill Clinton’s policies had NOTHING to do with it).

  25. 25.

    sacrablue

    October 15, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    @jo6pac: They are NRCC ads, all dark and scary. They never mention that Republicans voted to cut the same money when they voted for Ryan’s budget.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    October 15, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    @Scratchie:

    I didn’t realize that Alan West has infallible powers of precognition that allow him to say ahead of time what his opponent would do if elected. I guess that was how he knew those Iraqi prisoners were terrorists who had to be shot in the head while in custody.

  27. 27.

    Triassic Sands

    October 15, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida,

    History would say he’s correct.

    and he thinks he can get away with bald-faced lying.

    Once again, history says he’s right.

    Those are the two main reasons Republicans are still competitive in elections. Americans (many, many of them) are stupid. And lying works.

  28. 28.

    Drew

    October 15, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    @lacp: actually I think he’s running in a different district this time

  29. 29.

    Drew

    October 15, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I in no way mean to defend West, but it is not at all beyond the pale for politicians/candidates to use the subjunctive (Candidate X would do this!). Now, I suppose it becomes questionable when its not derived from the candidates own platform/history/party platform. But West would not be the first, and Republicans not the only ones.

  30. 30.

    1badbaba3

    October 15, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    HA! Alan Keyes is funnier.

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