'You Got to Make People Understand That There Are Certain Principles and Values Upon Which This Great Country Was Established'

Allen West at a July 3rd tea party in Fort Lauderdale. He reiterates more forcefully the theme I heard at the San Juan Capistrano tea party on Saturday. Patriots have to expand the scope of conflict. We have to move beyond preaching to the choir and get in the business of political conversion. It won't work with implacable America-haters of course. But lots of independents are defecting from the hopey-changey coalition that brought the Obama thugs to power, and we need to speed that process along. Listen to Allen West starting about about 1:50 minutes especially. He says "you gotta take this message out into your workplaces, into your homes, to your friends and you gotta make people understand ..."

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