Take Col. Allen West, for instance. West said recently, on Fox News, that he "prays" for my defeat in 2014. And take Fox News's host Bill O'Reilly. In the same interview, Bill O'Reilly predicted that I will lose in 2014.

Who is Allen West? While serving in Iraq, West had his soldiers arrest an Iraqi police officer, and beat the living daylights out of him. Then, for good measure, West took out his own gun, and shot it right next to the Iraqi police officer's ear. West was convicted of violating the Military Code of Conduct, fined $5000, and ushered out of the U.S. Army.

West somehow parlayed that experience into a seat in Congress, proving that there is fine, fine line between fame and infamy. During West's one term in Congress, he:

-- denounced Democrats as "chicken men,"
-- said that "about 78 to 81" Democratic Congressman are "members of the Communist Party,"
-- characterized Obama supporters as "a threat to the gene pool,"
-- called Rep. Keith Ellison the "antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established" simply because Ellison is Muslim, and
-- called Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, "the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives."