Left-Wing 'Politico' Smears Black Republican Allen West

Politico’s Smear Of Allen West: Only liberal minorities are off-limits

(By Brad Schaeffer, Big Journalism) - One would think that progressives, whose favorite pastime is patting each other on the backs for how "post-racial" they are, would be gratified to see African-Americans of all political stripes gaining a voice throughout the political spectrum.

Certainly, the election of two Black Republicans to Congress should be a welcome sign of advancement to the self-described chaperones of minority interests, especially since Allen West and Tim Scott were elected in the Deep South (Florida and South Carolina respectively). But as they continue to demonstrate again and again, the far left's pining for "diversity" ends where political thought begins. Consider Politico's recent attempt to smear West, a retired Army Colonel, as a right-wing version of the despicable and shameless Alan Grayson.

As Warner Todd Houston so thoroughly demonstrated, when we lay side-by-side each man's story, style and substance, that nexus is utterly preposterous. So what's Politico's real beef with the representative-elect then? West has committed the cardinal sin in the eyes of the "tolerant" elite. He dares to be an African-American and a conservative who, heaven forbid, even finds kindred spirits in the Tea Party movement!