Allen West: "Look I'm Not Into Name-Calling, All That Kind of Stuff"

LOL.That acronym could be a common reaction to Rep. Allen West's comment to the Sun-Sentinel editorial board on Wednesday in response to a question about whether Mitt Romney's a flip-flopper."No," West replied. "Look I'm not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff."...

By Matthew Hendley

January 7, 2012

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LOL.

That acronym could be a common reaction to Rep. Allen West's comment to the Sun-Sentinel editorial board on Wednesday in response to a question about whether Mitt Romney's a flip-flopper.

"No," West replied. "Look I'm not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff."

Let's play Politifact here for a second and fact-check the claim that West isn't "into name-calling."

Herman Cain: "Distracter"
Occupy Wall Street: "Gangs"
Occupy Wall Street: "Sons of anarchy"
Gene Sperling: "Idiot"
New Times: "Idiot liberals"
New Times: "Delusional dummies"
New Times: "A bunch of losers"
Maxine Waters: "Plantation overseer"
Obama supporters: "A threat to the gene pool"
Allen West: "Right-wing extremist"
Allen West: "Harriet Tubman"
Joe Biden: "Nutty"
President Obama: "Marxist"
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "Most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the U.S. House of Representatives"

Yeah, we'd say he's "into name-calling" and "that kind of stuff."

We rate West's claim as being false.

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