That sound reasonable to me.
After all, it is perfectly permissible to resolve an issue of eligibility in this manor.
Judge James Robertson said so regarding little bammy's qualifications under the Constitution to be president.
No, please, I would be honored to quote the good Judge...
Judge James Robertson said, "The plaintiff says that he is a retired Air Force colonel who continues to owe fealty to his Commander-in-Chief (because he might possibly be recalled to duty) and who is tortured by uncertainty as to whether he would have to obey orders from Barack Obama because it has not been proven – to the colonel's satisfaction – that Mr. Obama is a native-born American citizen, qualified under the Constitution to be president.
"The issue of the president's citizenship was raised, vetted, blogged, texted, twittered, and otherwise massaged by America's vigilant citizenry.
And that settles that by golly!
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Id be willing to bet my house that this is McDonnell’s work.
Maybe they can make a rule that any candidate who wins another state’s primary before VA needs to print the ballots can be added to the ballot if they pay a fee.
Thank you very much for doing this Jim. As a VA resident and GOP activist I am appalled by this act of arrogant stupidity by the RPV. They called me up looking for funds earlier this week and I pledged a rather generous donation. I am now reneging on it. I call all VA GOP activists to withold all donations to the party until they let Newt on the ballot.
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Jim, thank you for doing that! It’s a bummer this news broke on the day before Christmas when many folks may be away.
Also, would an online petition to the Va. Officials help or will the FB serve the same purpose? I wondered because a lot pf people still don’t use Facebook.
Wishing you a blessed Christmas and wonderful new year.
Jim, I understand how you want to stop Romney, and I appreciate it, but facebook “likes” is not how candidates get on the ballot in Virginia.
We have a law, and we have rules, and the rules were made plain to all the candidates, and every candidate had to live by those rules.
I’m sure Gingrich and Perry will file petitions to the RPV to get on the ballot, and maybe they will find a way to persuade themselves onto the ballot. But it is unseemly to launch an OWS-style protest against our state and our committee.
I doubt anybody would be doing this if Gingrich got on, and Romney didn’t. We’d all be happy as clams.
I’ll wait for the RPV to get back from Christmas and issue more information about what is happening before I comment much further. I think there has been a lot of misinformation here and elsewhere, and it’s being fueled by people acting out emotionally in the moment, and when there is nobody at work to answer the questions (weekend AND Christmas, you know).
Remember, our RPV got McDonald and Cuccinelli elected. And Bill Bolling, despite his endorsement of Romney, is a solid conservative as well, and a good man who doesn’t deserve to be slandered by some here at FR.
And Bolling doesn’t run the RPV. If anybody does, it would be McDonald, who has not endorsed. And Cuccinelli is also a powerful statewide official. You think Ken would let all the conservative get bumped off the ballot by some trickery?
But all those candidates did something Gingrich and Perry failed to do — got 10,000 VALID signatures to run for their offices.
Done, JimRob...and I’ve passed along the info to all my FB contacts.
Have a very Merry Christmas!
From what I’m told here at FR the ruling is in line with Virginia law. However, the bothersome thing for me now is the time frame without any allowance for for a ‘make correction’ situation/condition where it can be established that a candidate would have a viable chance for success.The sporting world recognized such situations/conditions years ago by adopting the review procedures. I realize that one can argue that an incident in a sport game the review is about a possible miss sight whereas in the Virginia case the number of proper votes might be a certainty. However, in the case of politics it is well established that the time factor is and has often been used as a means to corrupt valid alternative. I am particularly bothered by this time ‘gating’ when I hear the courts ruling that Obama’s eligibility cannot be challenged after some action of Congress or Obama’s taking the oath. Such exclusive conditions do not give best, better or even valid social environments.
Done and done.
This action by the VRP is just another item on the long list that confirms what many here already know. There are many good and sound reasons why the Republican Party is also known somewhat less affectionately as the Stupid Party.
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Merry Christmas morning!
I’m even more convinced today that it was in inside job in the Gingrich campaign.
I understand there were a lot of sigs turned in without addresses. Those had to be reviewed by somebody in the campaign organization before, way before, sending the pages in to the VRP.
So, somebody (or several somebodies) should have pulled them way before last week. This would have been a trusted somebody, if you know what I mean.
If you ask me, a lot of conservatives are doing a great job trashing candidates to the point where we are giving ourselves a Romney only ticket.
If they Global Syndicates can’t get us to vote for their handpicked candidates, then they will only let us have a choice of their hand picked candidates. Isn’t that the way it was in the Soviet Union with the Communist Party? And we thought the US won the Cold War.
Liked 139! :-)
Also posted to my FB wall, Jim.
Only 139” likes” so far.
Bump.
I just sent Fox News my sentiments this morning at friends@foxnews.com. They wanted to know what we think about Newt not getting on the VA. ballot due to his disorganization. I hope they read what I sent....