Oh lordy.
So you all know about Rep. Allen West, right? He’s a Florida Teabagger Congressman, representing the district next to that of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. As he lives in her district, he’s actually one of her constituents. He made the news a few weeks back when he was simply outraged that Wasserman Schultz criticized his policy beliefs on the floor of Congress and fired off an angry e-mail that basically said, “Thou shalt not speak to me in that way, mere woman!” My favorite piece on that incident is from TBogg and was headlined “Allen West Don’t Take No Sassy Mouth.”
Kind of a pig, he is. He also doesn’t like the gays very much.
But, being as this is Santorum Metaphor Week, West decided to separate himself from the pack by explaining how much of a choice homosexuality is via, you guessed it, METAPHOR! Dear god:
“I like chocolate chip ice cream, and I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream. So there’s no worry about me changing to vanilla. I like to, you know, ride my motorcycle. What do you want me to do? You want me to change my behavior and ride a scooter? I’m not into that. People can change their sexual behavior. And I’ve seen people do that. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, so I’ve seen a very different perspective on human behaviors. So that’s where I’m coming from on that.”
Hooooookay, so…Allen West’s turn-ons: chocolate chip, vroom vroom, vaginas. Turn-offs: Vanilla, scooters, wing-wangs.
Also, why is he talking about Atlanta? Is he taking inspiration somehow from Bishop Eddie Long? Because if that’s your token “ex-gay,” you need to keep digging.
Anyway. I really have nothing to say about this besides the fact that this man is obviously too stupid, misogynistic and homophobic to hold elected office in the United States.
WTH is he even talking about it…So Dumb!
What is UP with these politicians trying to use masculine objects in their metaphors?
So ice cream and two-wheeled vehicle preferences are ABSOLUTELY IMMUTABLE FOREVER AND EVER. But romantic/sexual preference can be changed like a pair of underwear.
Hmmm. He doesn’t say which way they can be changed. Do you West is trying to tell us something?
OK, making myself a little queasy.
Do you ^think West.
Gah.
He thinks that growing up in Atlanta gives him some credibility and that the perspective on human behavior is unique because of THAT? Off with his logic.
Dumbness begets dumbness. Sadly, this is the level of brains represented by the Tea Party. Any members with higher brain function should seriously consider leaving that “dead zone” before the mental deterioration affects them too. Interesting how one absolutely cannot change what they eat and what they ride because “THAT IS WHAT THEY LIKE”! Well, I suggest he prove how one can so easily change the whole sexual thing by starting to bed down with guys, if he can find one that would have him. This man is dopey beyond description.
“Anyway. I really have nothing to say about this besides the fact that this man is obviously too stupid, misogynistic and homophobic to hold elected office in the United States.”
Or that the people who elected him are just as “stupid, misogynistic and homophobic”.
The people get what they vote for.
Or what they *don’t* vote for, if they’re too damn lazy to go out and vote for progressives, which is why the teabaggers shanghaied congress in the last election and have helped throw the world economy into turmoil. NOT voting can have long and wide repercussions.