| Virginia, YOU have just been SOOOOOO scr*wed Virginia was in the Confederacy, and Robert E. Lee was from Virginia. |
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Posted on 12/26/2011 6:18:32 PM PST by Nachum
Paul Goldman, a Richmond lawyer who is a former Virginia Democratic party chairman, is helping represent a conservative group in challenging Newt Gingrich's disqualification from the Old Dominion ballot on March 6, Super Tuesday.
Bill Pascoe, executive vice president of Citizens for the Republic, said: “We are teaming up with former Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Paul Goldman to make sure the voters of the Commonwealth have a fair and transparent presidential primary process. ...
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>> It’s really stupid of Virginia to do this. Gingrich is going to be on the ballots of all 57 states other than Virginia. And he’s leading the polls in Virginia. They are in fact disenfranchising the hundreds of thousands of voters who would mark their ballots for Gingrich. >>
This is what the “rules are rules” crowd will not address, because they can’t. Virginia will look absolutely foolish to have a rule that is designed only to winnow fringe candidates and it ends up winnowing out the first and fourth place candidates in all the polls. That is clearly a stupid rule and Virginia, not the candidates, will look stupid.
There’s no way around that. Some 70% of the Virginia Republicans will not get to vote their choice - due to a bureaucratic technicality. That will not make the state look good. It won’t make Mitt or Ron Paul look good either.
Their win will be like Obama’s Nobel Prize win: obviously not deserved and therefore a public embarrassment.
Then let’s hope the polls look like this again.And Romney goes away.
Even all of the Romney bull can’t beat the SOB.
Right now my gut is telling me it ain’t going to be good and who do we have left that can go against voter ID fraud,moveon.org and the enpowered by Holder NBPanthers? Even Christie would have trouble going against that.
Isn't this problem really a VA Republican Party problem and not a state of Virginia problem? Just asking...
>> Isn’t this problem really a VA Republican Party problem and not a state of Virginia problem? Just asking... >>
My understanding is that it is both - and I was using “Virginia” to refer to both with regard to looking foolish.
| Virginia, YOU have just been SOOOOOO scr*wed Virginia was in the Confederacy, and Robert E. Lee was from Virginia. |
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Well, it reflects poorly on both. It’s a disgrace to our republic! It’s communistic!
Maybe the Dems want Newt to be the candidate. Pelosi and the Dems probably have juicy stuff on Newt that they will drop on him if he becomes the nominee.
The fishy-ness smells of Mitt trying to get his fix in.
I agree completely, and it deprives a large number of VA citizens of their right to get their vote counted, because of a last-minute rules change. I’m betting that this ruling will be overturned.
It looks like they are self destructing, how ridiculous of them.
They are putting more restrictions and red tape to get on the ballot than Obama continues to do the oil rigs in the Gulf and the pipeline from Canada. Gheesh!
It seems they are pulling out all stops to get their guy Obama another 4 years.
More snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Have you a clue on the history of how and when the petition count rule was changed? And why only Mitt and RP met the new rule?
>Bolling must be punished, and so must Romney for refusing to allow his own “signatures” to be verified by independent examiners. <
Ken Cuccinelli’s running for Governor. Let’s see, Bolling or Ken? Hmmm.
>> They are putting more restrictions and red tape to get on the ballot than Obama continues to do the oil rigs in the Gulf and the pipeline from Canada. Gheesh! >>
This is what the faux conservatives who support the Virginia rule will not address. They will not answer why such restrictions should be in place for a damned primary. No other state has anything close to it.
And they won’t answer why they, as supposed conservatives, are suddenly in favor of useless and meaningless restrictions.
They can’t answer either because there is no good answer to either. And they know it. And they know who they are. And so do we.
Yes. It is a cheap political trick, but no less than we have come to expect from the miscreants who are running the show for the GOP.
I think that this sort of business creates more problems than it solves and it leaves the voters with a bad taste in their mouth. If Romney had an ounce of personal conviction he would denounce this and ask that Gingrich be put on the ballot. However, since he has none, it merely confirms the suspicions of any who might have doubted before that he is without any values and would do or say almost anything to gain office. All of which means he is rather like Obama: Call him ‘Obama-lite’.
It will be interesting see what shakes out tomorrow from this in Virginia.
He made Lee Majors faster stronger, better!
Only cost $6 million.
Newt will cost more.
The negative is that Democrat Mr. Goldman doesn’t want national voter ID- that’s his motivation.
The positive is that a wrong will be undone in this instance. The VAGOP tossed out names for want of addresses- when the enabling legislation, “Virginia Code § 24.2-545. Presidential primary” does not require addresses on Presidential petitions. The verification process was substantively arbitrary.
Doubt this matter will ever see Court argument- because Romney and the VAGOP will have to defend voter exclusion- They’ll look like idiots- and ultimately, the Court will decide against them. Courts heavily favor voter inclusion.
Would expect to hear Romney come out and call for inclusion of all major candidates.
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