Allen West’s diminutive Democrat challenger took to the Palm Beach airwaves this morning. Patrick Murphy,gave a lackluster performance on a WPTV public affairs program. When pressed for specific solutions to the nations problems, Murphy trotted out the stale liberal mantra–get out of Iraq/Afghanistan and cut the Department of Defense.

Murphy insisted Medicare was fine for the next twenty years. He said he would support restoration of the Medicare Advantage program which is extremely popular among Florida senior citizens. Murphy attacked the Paul Ryan plan, but he was non commital when it comes to Social Security means testing:

“I cannot say here whether I would means test or not…I would need to dive in and learn more”

Murphy said he would have voted for the Obama stimulus plan because it saved us from a “Great Depression”; Perhaps Murphy was confusing the stimulus plan and TARP.

Murphy said he would vote for raising the debt ceiling without corresponding spending cuts.

On Weinergate, Murphy said he was “discouraged” by Weiner’s behavior but he would wait for ethics investigation before calling for Weiner to step down.

Perhaps the twenty-eight year old Murphy didn’t get the memo from Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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