Georgia GOP courts Allen West for future congressional run

theGRIO REPORT - According to Politico, the southern state's GOP wants to recruit West to run for election there at some point...

TheGrio Staff

Nov 13, 2012

Although Allen West has yet to concede in his bitterly-fought Florida House race, nearly every media outlet has called the race for his opponent.

But never fear, Georgia Republicans are coming to the controversial Tea Party member’s rescue.

According to Politico, the southern state’s GOP wants to recruit West to run for election there at some point.

“I would be glad to have [West] come back to Georgia and at some point run here,” Georgia GOP chairwoman Sue Everhart told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I would certainly try to help him because he has done his job. The way he ran his race didn’t in any way interfere with the job he did. He ran as a Republican, a conservative Republican.”

Everhart calls West, who was born and raised in Atlanta, “one of the finest congressmen this country’s ever had.”

West has earned a reputation as one of the most fiery and polarizing politicians in Congress. At one point he claimed there were 80 Communists within the Democratic caucus in Congress and compared social security to slavery.