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" Here&amp;#039;s Congressman Allen West explaining why he&amp;#039;s right and all the Democrats in Congress are godless Commie bastards: &amp;quot;No, I don&amp;#039;t regret it whatsoever,&amp;quot; West said. &amp;quot;And I think that if you would take the time to study the political spectrum of ideologies, you&amp;#039;d understand that at the turn of the [20th] century, American Communists renamed themselves as progressives. If you study the Woodrow Wilson administration, people referred to the Woodrow Wilson administration as a progressive administration. Here&amp;#039;s what Politico had to say about this: The conservative congressman hasn&amp;#039;t explicitly said as much, but he&amp;#039;s following a path blazed by Michele Bachmann, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. Each of them ignored the historic barriers and reasons why House members haven&amp;#039;t typically sought the presidency because they&amp;#039;ve were prescient enough to recognize that the equation has changed dramatically. What changed? Thanks to Internet and direct mail fundraising and the national platform offered by cable news shows, even a House backbencher can now build a well-financed national following. And Barack Obama&amp;#039;s victory, just four years removed from the Illinois state Senate, suggests the boundaries surrounding the question of office-holding experience have been erased. Even though I&amp;#039;m loathe to point out that Bachmann, Kucinich, and Paul didn&amp;#039;t get much closer to winning a presidential election than I have, I will admit that there&amp;#039;s nothing else in Politico&amp;#039;s analysis with which I disagree. Nice job, Republicans. Really. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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