We’ll see what develops, information-wise.
Even if the facts you have are accurate, I don’t see how adding 5,000 signatures more than a month before the deadline is that big of deal for a presidential/national campaign.
This was very doable.
And I think it stinks to high heaven to accuse Virginia Republicans who were simply trying to respond to a lawsuit and a perceived problem with the ballot access being too squirrelly of being Soviet-style corruptocrats. Especially since no one would have had a poor word about the process had Gingrinch made it.
Even Gingrich would have been out there saying, too bad others didn’t make it, but the rules are the rules, blah blah blah.
This is one of those times where it would have been much better for him to say, “We worked hard, we didn’t make it, we’re disappointed, but we can win Virginia as a write-in candidate in the general election.”
“Even if the facts you have are accurate, I don’t see how adding 5,000 signatures more than a month before the deadline is that big of deal for a presidential/national campaign.”
Yeah because, time, energy and resources aren’t important in a nationwide election...right? You don’t change the rules midstream...certainly not at the end of the game.
“And I think it stinks to high heaven to accuse Virginia Republicans who were simply trying to respond to a lawsuit...”
There was no mandate to respond in the middle of an election, they could have constructed the new rules for the next election. The people responsible were either incompetent or shilling for Establishment loved Romney...I think reasonableness leans to the side of shilling for Romney like good Establishment Republicans. Getting candidates deleted on change of rules speaks to the corruption inherent in Party politics and is absolutely representative of local and Republic Politburos in the now defunct Soviet system.
“Especially since no one would have had a poor word about the process had Gingrich made it.”
so it comes down to “it’s Ok to manipulate the system so that my candidate wins”....
That’s corrupt thinking. ....and btw, only one viable candidate survived the machinations....Mittens, the ESTABLISHMENT RINO....how cute.