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The rules for the primary are set by the General Assembly. The state board of elections runs and pays for the primaries. There is no registration by party. Why are you blaming Virginia Reps. These rules have been in place since 1999.

Newt has lived in VA for ten years. I find it amusing that he could not get 10,000 signatures from registered voters with at least 400 coming from each of the 11 Congressional districts. The prospective candidates were notified about the rules in March 2011. They could begin collecting signatures starting July 1 and had until December 21 to submit them. Santorum, Huntsman, and Bachmann did not even bother collecting and submitting signatures.

Some of the candidates like Gingrich, Santorum, Huntsman, and Perry have problems elsewhere because they did not comply with the state rules to get on the ballot and/or designate delegates.

If they are so incompetent that they can't get on the ballot in various states, they shouldn't be considered serious candidates.

That's just silliness. Any candidate who is serious hires people to take care of things like getting on the ballot. They don't have any personal involvement with the process of getting on a ballot, any more than the CEO of Microsoft reads the lease on some new office they are setting up in Arkansas. They have probably 2 or 3 people, at least, between Newt and whoever the idiot was who screwed up in VA. Obama probably has 6 layers between Himself and the state primary legal team, but he has a much bigger organization.

Newt and Perry both failed to get on. That tells you that there is a problem, and from what I have read, the problem is that they got snookered when the state decided to check signatures, where they had never done so before for a primary. They collected their signatures, turned them in, and then the state pulled a fast one, and disqualified a significant number of them.

What happened to the AG's efforts to fix the law so that they all could be on the ballot? Did that fail? He is a good conservative, and understood that the state needed to give Republicans a chance to vote for all the candidates, not just the establishment one and the Obama spoiler.

The point is, it is not a reflection on Newt or Perry that some underling failed to get the required signatures, even if that underling screwed up. You hire people and sometimes they mess up. A good leader fires the ones who are f-ups, and retains the ones who are good but who made a mistake, and then works to overcome the mistake.

There you go again ~ you know very well that Mullins and Bolling had the rules regarding signature verification/validation changed in the last month just before the turn-in date, AND DIDN'T NOTIFY ANYONE.

Your constant repetition of the untruth about how long the rules have been in place constitutes VOTE FRAUD per se.