“If the folks who one minute they’re saying that I’m their ‘tea party hero’ and what, three or four days later I’m a ‘tea party defector’ – that kind of schizophrenia I’m not going to get involved in it.”
– Florida Rep. Allen West, speaking Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show” about a possible primary challenge threatened by tea party groups against West and several other House Republican freshmen if they vote for House Speaker John Boehner’s debt plan. “I think what we have to ask ourselves is, if you’re telling me that I need to vote no against the Boehner plan, then what am I voting for,” he said. “I’m going to stand with this Boehner plan.”
