"Reince and I are giving Ken a little 'time out' to let him consider his future with The Party. I'm sure he'll learn to be a good company man."
Posted on 01/02/2012 3:58:48 AM PST by sodpoodle
Cuccinelli, a Republican, said in a statement Saturday that ballot access laws need to be changed not for any candidate, but for the voters. On Sunday, however, Cuccinelli issued a statement saying that while he favors reducing hurdles to getting on the Virginia ballot, he “will not support efforts to apply such changes to the 2012 Presidential election.”
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
ping
An obvious case of testicular shrinkage after being faced by the powers of the political farce called Republican leadership in that State.
It is time we got back to a two party system instead of the One party and the sattelite of it called RINOism.
Wonder who intervened?
This is the back story - before he wimped out.
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/12/report-cuccinelli-intervene-va-ballot-controversy
Judging from reading that the culprit appears to be Bill Bolling.
Friend of Mitt.
Sad, very sad.
Guess he'll give that up. Hey, he'll probably have to put ALL his kids in private schools now too ~ bet he didn't consider that one.
Then there's Bolling ~ he has to move out of state anyway. This sniveling little POS is the one to ~ can we say "target"? ~ oh, yeah, we are Republicans so we can say that.
If the ruling elite in this state leave us with NO ONE TO VOTE FOR in the primary, they can kiss their political and economic futures GOOD BYE!
Cuccinelli Reverses Stand On Primary
(excerpt)
“Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas are the only candidates who qualified for the primary. The state GOP excluded former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, saying they failed to submit the required 10,000 signatures of registered Virginia voters.
Earlier Sunday, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who leads Romney’s Virginia campaign, had said emergency legislation to get additional candidates on the ballot would be unfair to the two candidates who played by the rules.
In another statement Sunday night, Bolling said he appreciates the turnabout by Cuccinelli, his rival for the 2013 GOP gubernatorial nomination.
“Needless to say, I am pleased that Attorney General Cuccinelli has abandoned his call for legislative changes to Virginia’s ballot access requirements in advance of the Republican presidential primary in March,” Bolling said.
“While I do not object to the General Assembly considering changes to our ballot-access requirements for future elections, it would have been inappropriate to make such changes in the middle of the current presidential nominating process. That would have been terribly unfair to Governor Romney and Congressman Paul, both of whom successfully complied with these requirements and filed a sufficient number of legal petition signatures to qualify for the Virginia ballot.”
Bolling also admonished Cuccinelli.
“Going forward, I would also encourage Attorney General Cuccinelli to avoid making public statements that criticize our state election laws while his office is defending the State Board of Elections in a lawsuit that has been brought against them by Governor Perry and certain other presidential candidates,” Bolling said.
“I am concerned that such public comments could be used against the commonwealth in our effort to defend these lawsuits, and I am confident that the attorney general would not want to do anything that could jeopardize his office’s ability to win this case.”
Perry filed suit last week in U.S. District Court in Richmond seeking to get his name on the primary ballot. Gingrich and three other GOP candidates are joining the effort.”
who got to him....... what Rovian lapdog got to him?
Frightening, No. Disturbing and yet not surprising Yes.
If Mitt can roll this thing he will. Paulbots stupidly assisting!
Brilliant. Now let's apply that logic to legal aliens vs illegal aliens.
Excellent find.
Romney is the front man.
The machine is the old RINO GOP leadership. That is what is frightening.
They want Romney because they can control him, he is just the clay they will mold.Have already molded. He isn’t his own man, he is theirs.
Just an opinion of course, but i;s mine.
this pussyboi, found his BB-balls in mittens lock box.
He had to change his name, his ancestors cannot be from Italy or Sicily, maybe one of the Roman soldiers sired a bastard on their way through France.
I can't remember being this pissed at such an open cave-in to party pressure.
I guess pubbies with dago sounding names can be fags, but he sure had me fooled, he sounded so tough against obummer, just can't take the internal, good ol' boy heat from the country club, pinot wine sippen', loafer wearing, golf-cheaten' 18 handicappers.
Fag boi, change your name to whatever your wife's name is, and don't forget the hyphen.
Give us real Dagos some of our pride back.
Mook.
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