The 2012 elections are not just a challenge for incumbent President Obama, but for a number of freshmen Congressmen swept into the House of Representatives by the Tea Party movement in 2010. On Fox News today, anchor Uma Pemmaraju hosted a panel featuring Tea Party Express leader Amy Kremer and Tea Party Rep. Mick Mulvaney in which they debate whether the campaign rhetoric matched the voting records of the Tea Party Republicans.

Rep. Allen West has a record of headline-making remarks, and on Thursday, in an interview with ThinkProgress, West again made comments that some may find offensive and inaccurate. LGBT discrimination in the workplace, he said, isn’t a problem in this country; it’s not a big issue with small businesses.

On CNN’s State of the Union today, host Candy Crowley talked with Newt Gingrich in some depth about the current state of the Republican party. Gingrich defended the GOP from claims that it is not diverse enough, pointing to people who help make the party more racially and ideologically diverse. Crowley told Gingrich during the interview that a common perception of Republicans is that they’re just a “conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect big oil.”

On Tuesday, an MSNBC panel on Now With Alex Wagner attacked tea party representatives in Congress. Buzzfeed editor and former Politico editor Ben Smith called many tea party representatives “flotsam” that “had no business being elected.” He said the “counter-revolution has arrived” and cautioned political observers to “enjoy Rep. Allen West (R-FL) while you got him.”

Florida Congressman Allen West visited Fox & Friends Monday morning, where he spoke with host Brian Kilmeade about a number of topics, including the possible risks that come with the FBI’s revised training manual, from which hundreds of pages have been removed because, as Kilmeade explained, some found them to be “offensive.”

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is indisputably one of the brightest stars of the Republican firmament– a young, Tea Party-backed Senator with a compelling life story and the sort of rhetorical skills that get him compared to the last young sensation our upper congressional chamber gave us, President Barack Obama. He is eloquent in both the our nation’s major languages, reasonable enough to denounce his side’s more entertaining loons, and, with more experience, potentially unstoppable as a presidential contender. So why do Republicans want to irreparably destroy his career by associating him with jelly-spined bore Mitt Romney?

On Thursday’s Starting Point, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien held Florida Republican Congressman Allen West‘s feet to the fire over his allegations that up to 80 members of the House of Representatives were Communists. A visibly uncomfortable West squirmed as O’Brien demanded he start naming names.

Perhaps the most outspoken member of Florida’s congressional delegation is also one of their most polarizing. Freshman Republican Rep. Allen West generates a lot of buzz when he makes a television appearance – and he makes them often. In almost every appearance, however, he makes an avoidable misstatement which suggests that Congressman West is not ready for prime time.

On Friday, the Morning Joe panel got into a heated argument over two of the week’s more controversial news stories: Rep. Allen West‘s comment about “communists” and Hilary Rosen‘s remark that Ann Romney had “actually never worked a day in her life.”

On Thursday, the Morning Joe gang took a look at recent comments made by Rep. Allen West concerning the Democratic party. According to a local report, West told an audience in Florida he’d “heard” that up to 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party. West’s campaign manager, Tim Edson, came forward saying that West’s statements had been misrepresented by a “stupid reporter” at a local publication who “misquoted the entire thing.”

CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips hosted Rep. Allen West (R-FL) where he weighed in on the rumors that he is on a short list for vice president, the Trayvon Martin killing and President Obama’s health care law in the Supreme Court. The illuminating interview became heated when Phillips asked West to weigh in on gay marriage rights, at which point West accused Phillips of leading him down a “rabbit hole.”

On Wednesday, appearing on CBS This Morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was asked to comment on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin assertion on Fox News Channel’s Hannity that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney should select Rep. Allen West (R-FL) as his eventual running mate. McCain responded, “I think it should be Sarah Palin,” to laughs from the CBS hosts.

With the Alaska Republican primary on the horizon, Alaska’s most prominent Republican has been making the rounds on Fox News, and this morning Sarah Palin stopped by to tell Republicans to keep their eye on the Democratic ball, not to fear a brokered convention, and not to watch Game Change. But in doing so she made a new revelation in being asked whether she would take the convention stage should it be brokered: she doesn’t expect anyone to support her.

Allen West, the Republican Representative from Florida voiced his opinions about “liberal blogs” specifically the Huffington Post and Think Progress. West recently became aware of ThinkProgress’ article, West’s 15 most outrageous Statements after his staff assistant informed him of the post. He mocks the article by mimicking the most outrageous statements in penetrating Bee gee’s voice.

In this latest installment of “political figure of your choice performs a pop/rock song for no clear reason,” Rep. Allen West– he who wants the President to “get the hell out of the United States,” he who deemed Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz “not a lady,” the most Spartan member of the Republican Freshman class– has a sweet ditty he wants to share with the attendees of his birthday party. Warning anyone with camera that he’d make them do push-ups if they recorded what was about to transpire, a video captured by Florida political blog The Shark Tank shows the Congressman breaking into a cover of “Pretty Woman.”

Appearing on CNN’s Starting Point Wednesday morning, Florida Congressman Allen West was skeptical about the payroll tax compromise reached in Congress and told Soledad O’Brien he currently wouldn’t support the plan. “Not if we’re going to do it on the backs of American homeowners, I won’t support that,” West explained. “It’s about time that we get pretty genuine with the American people and not give them political gimmicks. Let’s start doing the things that look out for our future, not a short term economic band aid.”

Appearing on CNN’s Starting Point, Florida Republican Congressman Allen West compared the tea party movement to the The Blob, the “giant amoeba-like alien that terrorizes small communities” in the 1950s science-fiction classic. “When you look at the tea party, it’s much like Steve McQueen’s movie, ‘The Blob’!” West exclaimed. “They’re kind of different from each state to each state. There really is no centralized organization or structure to it, so each organization in its respective state or even North Florida down to South Florida can differ.”

Friday’s encouraging jobs report has resulted in predictable agita from Republicans, who are scrambling to figure out how to sell themselves, in an improving economy, to sane America. On Monday morning’s Fox And Friends, Eric Bolling conspiratorially asked “Are they playing around with the numbers?”

The liberal blog Raw Story is accusing Fox and Friends of “inventing” a conspiracy around the jobs report, but that’s not true; Bolling simply neglected to credit the inventor of this silliness, Rep. Allen West (R-FL).

Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) stopped by MSNBC yesterday, where he weighed in on Rep. Allen West‘s recent comments urging President Obama and other Democratic leaders to take their message “to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”

Yesterday, things got pretty fiery on The Five thanks to the comments Rep. Allen West made this weekend saying that President Obama and other leaders of the Democratic Party should “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Bob Beckel went off on the comments, saying he’d “never heard anything more disgraceful in my life.” This morning, West demanded an apology…

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) was a guest on Soledad O’Brien‘s Starting Point Tuesday morning, and was confronted with questions about his now-infamous, “get the hell out of the United States” comments from over the weekend, directed at Democratics Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Ed Schultz opened his program tonight with a segment of Republicans behaving badly– from RNC Chair Reince Priebus to Arizona governor Jan Brewer to Rep. Allen West. Schultz and his guests, Melissa Harris-Perry and James Peterson, made the point that Priebus’s comparison of the President to the Captain of the sunken Costa Concordia, Brewer’s exchange with him in Arizona, and West’s demand that he leave America were all indicative of the same illness in Republican politics.

On Fox News’ The Five, co-host Bob Beckel has a usual batch of ways in which he shows how angry he is about a subject. There’s “Muffled Curse Words” Beckel, where he lets the audience know what he really thinks by saying the beginnings (and just that) of all sorts of fun words. And there’s “Silent, Arms Folded” Beckel, my personal favorite, who gets so upset about a subject he refuses to even talk about it.

Congressman Allen West spoke at a Florida GOP dinner last night, and had some fighting words for Democrats who are trying to mark Florida in the win column this November. He declared it a “battlefield” for citizens to stand on and tell the Democrats that their message is not going to resonate with the citizens of Florida. West called out not just President Obama, but Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and fellow Floridian Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

On Tuesday, Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Rep. Allen West (R-FL) joined Soledad O’Brien on Starting Point to have a spot of breakfast and discuss the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns.