Jeff Smith: Has Allen West Gone Too Far?

Media victim? Seriously? He’s a media victim in the same way that Kim Kardashian is: every dollar they raise/make is due entirely to their shameless exploitation of media fascination with them as opposed to any iota of talent they might possess.

These two peas-in-a-pod exemplify the modern-day media corollary of “If it bleeds, it leads,” which is “If it screams – or has implants – it leads.”

This episode will inevitably help him raise more money from the nutjob base, which helps him. But I don’t know enough about the dynamics of his new district to say whether it hurts him with actual swing voters.

People who talk about him seriously as a VP prospect should immediately report back to the asylum from which they’ve escaped.

(Cross-posted, with permission of the author, from Politico’s Arena)