After Allen West said "many congressional Democrats are Communists", did Romney criticize him?

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4. Romney might have criticized what West said, if he disagreed with it

I'd like to know if anyone in the popular media will ask Romney about it. West hasn't backed off his incendiary comments, as far as I know. Does Romney agree with West? It's a pretty simple question, easy to ask. The proper answer would marginalize West and his loony ideas, but for some reason, the popular media doesn't seem interested in stopping a little casual character assassination. I recall when this sort of garbage was allowed to flourish back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, it was airily dismissed by responsible voices in the media. Until the guns got turned on them, and then it was "How could this have happened?"

Yeah, Allen West is a kook. But kooks become demagogues, and demagogues become dangerous as their ideas are left to grow in the dark corners. So media bulldogs? How about it? McCarthy got started with a little-noticed bit of spuriousness in Wheeling, West Virginia, and before it was over, a lot of people had their lives ruined forever.