[Sacajaweau]

Bachman....go home....your 15 minutes are up.

[Jukeman]

The establishment fix is in place. Four more years of Obama assured.

[svcw]

I don’t remember candidates having so much trouble qualifying for ballots as in this race.
The rules and regs to get on the ballot are pretty clear, what is their issue?
Really if they don’t have ground crews who get this done in a timely fashion then they wouldn’t win anyway.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

NASHVILLE — Four of the nine Republican candidates in Tennessee's presidential primary ballot will have no committed delegates on the ballot with them on the March 6 ballot, while Mitt Romney has a surplus wanting to represent him at the Republican National Convention.

First VA now TN. We should all sue the states and the Romney campaign for disenfranchising our primary choices. This makes it crystal clear to me that the stinking GOP and media are choosing ObamneyRomneyCare not THE PEOPLE of the United States..

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

This isn't as problematic as Virginia. Virginia will allow neither write-in votes nor delegates apportioned to those not on the ballot. In Tennessee, all of the candidates are still on the ballot. And, in addition, from the article:

The candidates without delegates on the Tennessee ballot — Michelle Bachmann, Gary Johnson, Charles "Buddy" Roemer and Rick Santorum — can still win them at the polls and have delegates appointed later by the state Republican Executive Committee under party rules.

[bigbob]

they’ll both be done by then anyway

[PieterCasparzen]

Local Republican political machine people will all fall in line behind the establishment preference.

[mylife]

9 candidates?
Who knew there were 9 candidates?

[Ingtar]

Here in Tennessee, they are on the ballot. They did not submit a list of delegates to get them on the ballot as well. We have two sections in a primary: candidates and a separate vote for delegates. Those without delegates can get them assigned later, so it is no big deal. It simply shows a lack of effort here.

[Raider Sam]

When did the nomination process become more confusing than the tax code?

[montag813]

How incredibly stupid. How can you be in a dozen debates, spend months on the road and hundreds of town halls, and not even bother to get on the ballot in TWO states?

[meyer]

I know enough about the TN Republican party to know that they love to choose the candidates before the voters ever get a chance. That’s one reason why I don’t donate to the party. Can’t trust ‘em.

[kindred]

The rino right GOP is fixing the primaries as is their evil way. I see no difference between the leftists communists and the rino right liberals, their minds are destroyed and they are evolving into liberals election by election.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord but sin is a reproach to any people.

[neverdem]

Thanks for posting. Happy New Year!

[Impy]

Yikes.