Naturally, the lefty blogger who covers West for the Palm Beach New Times is horrified:

U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cutting down on the national debt. Then a woman in the audience asked him a question about the House bill — which he supported — that would end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. West’s mask of sanity fell off with a thud.

“Planned Parenthood, they can go out and compete for private dollars,” he began.

“It is absolutely offensive to me that Planned Parenthood is located in so many of our black communities,” West replied.

The mind boggles with all the possible implications of such a statement. West was drowned out by too much cheering and booing to immediately explain himself further.