The establishment is fighting back, alright.
This has not received a lot of national attention, but the Republican legislature in Florida is about to push through a plan which puts Allen West at serious risk, and the person leading the effort is one of Mitt Romney’s spokemen. As reported by The Shark Tank:
After last night’s [Jan. 26] Republican Presidential debate, the candidates’ respective spinmeisters made their cases to the media as to why their guy won the debate. One of Governor Mitt Romney’s spokesmen was Florida Representative Will Weatherford, and during the course of his remarks in the “Spin Room”, he shed a very dim light on the ongoing redistricting process in the Florida Legislature….
West’s congressional district inexplicably sheds the most out support as compared to all other incumbent Republican and Democrat Congressman. A few weeks back we quoted an unnamed legislator saying that, “Allen West was screwed”, a statement which was originally made about made five months before the purposed maps were made public, leading insiders to believe that the fix was in against Allen West. But in light of Weatherford’s comment, it is increasingly clear that this is a fait accompli.
According to Weatherford, those preliminary maps will not change- at the most, any additional changes would be minimal, and those changes would not make any appreciable difference from the preliminary maps. In addition, Weatherford stated that a deal was struck between him, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, and Senator Don Gaetz to finalize these maps and push them through as soon as possible.
Weatherford tried to hide behind a need to comply with federal law, but that’s obviously a dodge since there could have been many ways to comply yet not sacrifice West:
Well, since the Col. may be looking for a job anyway, it would be grand to see him drafted at the convention. And a great payback to the elites that would be!
Another story that makes me glad I’ve not called myself “Republican” in decades despite voting for them most of the time.
Republicans continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
Sean Trende, the senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics and author of “The Lost Majority,” e-mails Hot Air to say that Florida’s redistricting law has tied the GOP’s hands on this. They have very little leeway on how they draw the new lines. Quote:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/30/florida-gop-trying-to-force-allen-west-out-of-congress-through-redistricting/
In other words:
It was all a lie by the Anti-Romney peeple.
I cannot believe they would do a dirty thing like stabbing ALLEN WEST IN THE BACK,
NO WANDER HE TOLD THEM TO GET OUT OF AMERICA, BY GEEZ HE WAS RIGHT