FL-18, PPP: West in the lead

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

West is surely doing so well due to his opponents horrid favorables thanks to a past of drunken debauchery.

Drunken debauchery might give me pause compared against being relieved of command for torturing a prisoner of war, but it would depend on the extent of the drunken debauchery.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

West is surely doing so well due to his opponents horrid favorables thanks to a past of drunken debauchery.

Drunken debauchery might give me pause compared against being relieved of command for torturing a prisoner of war, but it would depend on the extent of the drunken debauchery.

I suspect that most of America, or at least most of the 18th district of Florida, is not quite as concerned with the complaints of a potential Arab terrorist.

It certainly seems that way, but we should hold our own officers to higher standards than the terrorist suspects that they interrogate, should we not? The US Army was concerned enough to Article 15 West but not concerned enough to court-martial him, so I would submit that we as a nation could perhaps follow their lead in splitting the difference by, say, being willing to elect West to Congress from someplace he actually lives but unwilling to elect him to Congress from someplace he's running in solely because it has Republicans.

I don't personally see why the man's being Arab is relevant to anything, but I know that race is important to you, and it might for all I know be important to at least some of the good people of South Florida too.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

West is surely doing so well due to his opponents horrid favorables thanks to a past of drunken debauchery.

Drunken debauchery might give me pause compared against being relieved of command for torturing a prisoner of war, but it would depend on the extent of the drunken debauchery.

I suspect that most of America, or at least most of the 18th district of Florida, is not quite as concerned with the complaints of a potential Arab terrorist.

It certainly seems that way, but we should hold our own officers to higher standards than the terrorist suspects that they interrogate, should we not? The US Army was concerned enough to Article 15 West but not concerned enough to court-martial him, so I would submit that we as a nation could perhaps follow their lead in splitting the difference by, say, being willing to elect West to Congress from someplace he actually lives but unwilling to elect him to Congress from someplace he's running in solely because it has Republicans.

I don't personally see why the man's being Arab is relevant to anything, but I know that race is important to you, and it might for all I know be important to at least some of the good people of South Florida too.

That would be a nice theory, Nathan, but Patrick Murphy does not live in the Florida 18th district either. He lives in Fort Lauderdale.

That's just sad.

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Again, should we not hold our own officers and public officials to a higher standard than terrorists, Arab or otherwise? (This is, of course, taking as a given article of faith that Mr Hamoodi was in fact a terrorist, which correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe was ever proven.) Do you not understand the difference between being 'unkind' and firing a gun next to an unarmed captive's ear or do you just not care?

This simply doesn't seem to be a race with a good candidate, far less two good candidates. The people of this district are faced with a sot and a thuggish extremist, neither of whom even live particularly close by.