[Rashputin]

The bottom line is that no one knows whether a single signature for Romney is valid because with 15,000 they just qualify you and don't bother checking. So, under the new rules, Newt and Perry just didn't tell a big enough lie.

[RFEngineer]

“So, under the new rules, Newt and Perry just didn’t tell a big enough lie. “

Or maybe they were lazy.

Or maybe they really didn’t care about their candidate to do what was necessary.

Or maybe they just were in it for the free sandwiches & coffee

These are much more likely than a Romney conspiracy.

Nobody prevented Gingrich or Perry from collecting enough signatures to reach the unquestioned 15,000 threshold.

Failure to reach that threshold is a campaign staff screw-up of epic proportions.