That is a fiction, unfortunately repeated and believed by too many people here. The truth is hard to recover once the conspiracies and fictions have been spread far and wide.
Perry and Gingrich were “kept off the ballot” by virtue of not submitting 10,000 valid signatures, as required by long-standing Virginia law.
Santorum was “kept off the ballot” by virtue of not having actually submitted ANY signatures, or other paperwork, to be put on the ballot.
Thus, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were the only two on the ballot, because they both submitted the required number of valid signatures.
We just had a senate primary, and 4 people, including 3 little-known names, two of whom weren’t even politicians, all were able to submit more than 15,000 signatures each for the office. Thus two people who never did politics were able to get 50% more signatures than Perry and Gingrich.
Do I wish we could have changed the law so the signatures weren’t needed, or we could have write-ins? Certainly. But there were no “shenanigans” involved that kept people from submitting enough signatures. Perry and Gingrich knew what they needed, and failed to deliver.
Charles,
Just to make sure that I heard it right the first time, I went back and listened to Mark Levin speak about it again. I found it through an archive search on FR. The link is at post #17, here is the thread link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2828022/posts
For the record, I have written a check (max) for Romney and will vote for him no matter who he chooses as his VP.
As an original supporter of Santorums... It just takes a little more effort to pull the lever with McD on it.
Not trying to pick a fight... Just sayin it doesn’t give me warm and fuzzies.
WB
(sorry or any errors.. Golf course- iPhone)