[cotton1706]

Silly, Gingrich! Voter fraud doesn’t happen. NPR says so!

[trumandogz]

I knew Al Gore was behind this.

[Hoodat]

Next time, Gingrich should try venturing outside the Beltway for a change to collect his signatures.

[muleskinner]

A double agent. Who did he really work for?

[annieokie]

Seems to me that if Perry wins his court battle, it will also be a win for Newt and all.

[WFTR]

One of the duties of an executive is to hire the right people to accomplish tasks. That Newt Gingrich ended up with someone who committed this kind of fraud and that he allowed his qualification to be derailed by the fraud or even mistakes of one person is more evidence that he doesn't have the right skill set for an executive position. He's a smart man who has some great ideas. He's just not good at putting together teams to get things done. In a president, we need someone who can put together teams to get things done.

Another point is that he was trying to qualify at the very last minute. I understand that his surge came late in the campaign, but back in June when he launched his campaign, his numbers weren't that bad. If he'd concentrated on ballot access during those first two weeks instead of taking a cruise in the Mediterranean, maybe he would have qualified.

[Proudcongal]

It doesn’t help that Virginia was determined that Gingrich or any other conservative not get on the ballot, specifically, that Romney get the nomination at any expense.

[skr]

Boasting we don’t need.

[Burkean]

You’ve got to give him props for coming clean rather than obscure the facts with finger pointing outside his own circle.

[montag813]

Wanna bet that whoever Newt hired did this on purpose on behalf of Mittens? Remember that the VA Lt. Gov is head of the Mittens for Prez campaign in the state.

[savedbygrace]

This is only half the story. The guy didn’t create those fraudulent signatures all in one day. Somebody was supposed to be supervising him and the guy should have been turning in his sheets as he finished them.

So, somebody else in the campaign was guilty, and it could have been a planned thing with the two of them pulling it off.

There’s another shoe that needs to drop.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That sucks. It’s hard enough to get signatures, without your paid help cutting corners.

A friend of my daughters was working to get signatures for Obama. They paid good money, but you needed to get something like 75 signatures an hour or else you didn’t get any money.

That seemed rife for fraud.

[RKBA Democrat]

So he’s admitting that he hired a moron to do the work for him, and that he doesn’t have a sufficient volunteer base or paid organization to do it correctly. Gee, that sure inspires faith.

Does Newt have a fetish for shooting himself in the foot? He’s a very smart guy, but he really should learn to shut his mouth from time to time.

[Gene Eric]

If the other candidates weren’t such assholes, they’d pull out of the VA race.

[Baynative]

There is no fraud for democrats. What do they know that we don’t?