This video is a couple months old but I just ran across it the other day. Remember back in April when Rep. Allen West was sharply rebuked by the Left for his assertion that there were dozens of communists in the U.S. House of Representatives?
This was his response, apparently at a press conference, to the backlash ~ No regrets baby! ~
 

 
As he rightly says, the progressives of today are the philosophical descendants of last century’s communists, heirs to Woodrow Wilson’s ideology of social and economic justice.

It’s very interesting the people on the left are not debating the point I made, they just don’t like the fact that it was made…
 
Do your research. Understand the ideologies.
This is a choice between two very clear futures for the United States of America.

 
Watching this I struck by his confidence and conviction and found myself thinking; wouldn’t it be awesome if Rep.West could stand in for Romney in the upcoming presidential debates?
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Related:
Early in the interview West suggests that it would be instructive for the reporter he’s addressing to study the full spectrum of political ideologies. This article by Walter Williams would be a good starting point ~

Today’s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from those of Nazi, Soviet and Maoist mass murderers. One does not have to be in favor of death camps or wars of conquest to be a tyrant. The only requirement is that one has to believe in the primacy of the state over individual rights.