Well Mr. Hariassadopolos, the TEA Party hasn’t even begun to rain on your political parade! After what you did with the immigration bill last year, you don’t deserve to be dog catcher!

With a chainsaw.

I think you are overlooking the possibility that Javier is the one trying to damage whoever he can.   I don’t know Haridopolos from Adam, but Javier has a history.

What is the evidence besides Javier’s unsupported suggestions?  If Haridopolos didn’t have the juice to get himself a district to run in, how did he have enough influence to affect West?  It makes no sense at all.

And while Hasner is a good strong young conservative, the idea he might beat Connie Mack VIII for Senate is the stuff of Erickson fantasy.  That’s why he jumped on the chance to run for the House in the shuffle.  Romney was trying to trade on Mack’s popularity for his own benefit, not trying to “boost” Mack.  He needed to win Florida – why would he risk trying to influence the Senate primary IF it were in doubt?

All the strings lead back to Javier.  Occam’s Razor – while I know some around here love the Grand Conspiracy Theory which explains everything as part of it, I’d be looking hard at the one common denominator before I invested in the foil helmet (seen the price of tin these days?).

If Spain were to take Florida back, where would all the old Jews, Italians, and Irish go?

Furthermore (you knew it was coming), I suggest the very speed with which the shuffle of seats  was settled argues against any conspiracy against West.  Unless you believe people spent the better part of two years plotting to get rid of him – starting before he was elected, with the reform amendments – and folded at the first sign of resistance.

Of course, the conspiracy theorists will claim this proves the conspiracy, that it collapsed when discovered.  But to them, everything proves the conspiracy, doesn’t it?  The very lack of evidence proves somebody covered it up.

Allen West’s Enemy: Mike Haridopolos?

To publish this—without even trying to interview Haridopolos  or determine whether your unsourced “fingerprints” allegation is true–is the antithesis of journalism. No pursuit of the truth. No fairness. No balls.

 Just one question: why would the Florida GOP redraw any district that’s currently a safe pick up for the republicans, instead making it majority democrat?  Rationally speaking, they wouldn’t, unless they’re TRYING to screw over the republican currently holding that seat.

Sounds like IL — but FL is less further along the path and thus has some kinks to work out.  
Here even the canidates for dogcatcher are part of the machine.

“…would be just the kind of sneaky thing you might expect in such a situation involving Florida Republicans”
Or, might I add, Romney operatives. In every race where Mitt is involved, his rivals hate him with white hot intensity, until the next time, when they mysteriously endorse him. Why, because his money is against them, until it is for their endorsement. 2008, mittens slimed McCain (the one from AZ), and Huck, and they hated him: this year, they have slimed Newt, both Ricks, and probably Cain. Now we hear rumors o an alliance with the other guy running some ads, that would be Ron Paul.
Stacy, you called Perry he phantom menace, but I think mittens is the dark force!

LOL. You have just described what Stacy did — publishing unsourced, unverified gossip that “could be wrong, or even lying” — as a “journalistic code of ethics.”

From the comments: the GOP machine in most states is deeply corrupt, mostly incompetent, and don’t offer a true choice between themselves and the Progressives.

They won’t go gently into that good night, ladies and gents.

They are now expecting to pass HB 7087 which includes HB 371 . They are partly about enterprise zones. This is an Agenda 21 plot to take awy our rights & to ruin the US. This is more of a threat then illegals but shows the corruption of our elected state officials.

 The only thing that would get me to California is missing the left turn at Denver when visiting my father who lives in Montrose.

Every time I think California has hit rock bottom, they amazingly enough find a way to dig even deeper.  At some point Gov Jerry Brown’s head is going to pop out of the ground in Beijing.

That ought to give those Chinese a real surprise.

Like dealing with a camp full of rascally boys.  You know two or three of them broke into your camp director’s office, and stole the likker bottle, and flipped your desk upside down during the night, so you deny everyone the right to swim in the lake.

Stacy also said he did his own digging and was reporting on a parallel story.

Well I didn’t want to call you “Dude” because that’s a bit too cheeky.  I’m digging “madam” though — gives me an air of distinctiveness and breeding that is perhaps not deserved.

If the Chinese are the ones taking over, then only the Irish might have a problem (Chinese, Jews, and Italians usually play well together — at least they did in my dad’s old neighborhood).

Heh, and the Germans are going to wind up like they always do: with a bad case of morning after headache, a looming sense of regret, and a case of the clap that’ll be hard to get rid of…metaphorically of course.

Yep, you pretty much have it.

I found out some really lovely things during my last job — truly the sort of thing that the Occupy idiots would love to get ahold of, and which the Tea Party folks should pay attention to.

And it was at that point that I decided I would never again belong to, nor join, any political party or movement.
The “I Hate Them All Independent” faction: it’s what’s for dinner.

That would be good for the old folks because they could ten sell the Germans their extra Clappers.

sadly you are spot on in Florida politicsI live here and have never liked the liberal self indulgent democrats nor the elitist conservatives posing as republicansReal republicans like Lincoln and MLK aren’t anywhere close to Florida - except just maybe in the embodiment of Lt Col Allen West. All I really know is “we the people” seemed to stop existing long ago. I have and will support Allen West AND now Adam Hasner because I do believe they still understand what that means. Pray for us down here….our nation might just depend on it.

 But-but-but-the Chicoms have already got us to stop the pipeline so THEY could get that good Canadian oil INSTEAD of us, and-

Oh, wait, you said debt PAYBACK, not so they would agree to finance even MORE DEBT. My mistake.

Stacy said the guy “is said to be” involved in the re-drawing of the district map. A red flag should go up in your mind whenever you see a journalist use the passive voice to introduce information. Suggesting that the information comes from someone else while avoiding attributing it to anyone is your clue to  the fact that it’s nothing more than the journalist’s opinion, assumption, or imagination.

Teddy Roosevelt called this sort of thing “weasel words.” Other examples of this particular journalistic species: 

“has been linked to” 

“mentioned as a possible candidate”

“believed to be” 

“widely regarded as”

Journalists don’t employ these phrases because their sources are too highly placed to even be acknowledged as existing. They use these phrases to make it look like they’ve gathered information they haven’t, and to make it look like they know things they don’t.

 Errr, wouldn’t the speed with which it was settled actually be an argument FOR the conspiracy aspects? I mean, if this was rushed through without giving West any input? And yes, I know the redistricting was being planned statewide on an on-going basis beginning from the time before West was elected, but that’s almost an irrelevant point.

What you are forgetting (or maybe just ignoring) is the fact that West also ran for the office two years before, in 2008, and was defeated, though it was a fairly close election.

The two years between West’s defeat, and then ultimate victory, didn’t happen in a vacuum. He spent those two years building up his support, something that would not have gone unnoticed among the professional politicians and bureaucrats that infest any state like so many ticks on a mangy coon dog.

Oh, and practically from the beginning of this two year cycle, something else happened that was very interesting, something that would not have gone unnoticed, something that may have been very worrisome, and something which West very early on became a part of.

A little something called The Tea Party happened.

Florida politics is a swamp infested with alligators and mosquitoes. It doesn’t have a grassy knoll. It IS a fucking grass knoll. Don’t tell me you seriously expect us to buy they are above this kind of skullduggery.