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. It’s unAmerican.
In 2008, Romney and Paul got less than 10% of the Virginia Republican presidential primary vote between them. Romney 18,000 and Paul 22,000. And that was out of almost 500,000 votes cast.
It’s beyond ridiculous to have these two losers as the only candidates allowed on the ballot when hundreds of thousands of Virginia Republican voters prefer others!! It’s criminally corrupt!!
Virginia is FUBAR!! Hope they get it rectified in time!!
I think they will. Or be ridiculed for years.
>> 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.
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.
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.