Posted on 12/24/2011 8:29:18 PM PST by no dems
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's campaign attacked Virginia's GOP primary election system on Saturday for keeping him off the state's March 6 Super Tuesday ballot. The state party said that Gingrich, who lives in Virginia, had failed to submit the required 10,000 signatures to appear on the ballot. The Gingrich campaign responded that "only a failed system" would disqualify Gingrich and other candidates. It said Gingrich would pursue an aggressive write-in campaign, although state law prohibits write-ins on primary ballots.
Gingrich campaign director Michael Krull said in a statement: "We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice." However, state law says this about primary write-in campaigns: "No write-in shall be permitted on ballots in primary elections."
Forty-six delegates will be at stake in Virginia's Super Tuesday primary. That's a small fraction of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination. But they could prove pivotal in a close race, especially for a candidate like Gingrich, who expects to do well in Southern contests. Gingrich already missed the deadline to appear on the ballot in Missouri's Feb. 7 primary, though he insists it doesn't matter because the state awards delegates based not on the primary but on a Republican caucus held in March. "After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10k signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary," the party announced early Saturday on its Twitter feed.
Gingrich had been concerned enough to deliver his signatures personally. Rushing from New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Jan. 10, he held a rally Wednesday in Arlington, Va., where volunteers asked supporters to sign petitions.
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its not us..its the system...the system!!! the system? newt sounding like a lib again...its the system...occupy virginia?
Too many of the politically active voters are now employees of government at various levels, employees of services dependent on government spending and pensioners. That’s why the Gingrich campaign is blocked by corruption. We’ll have to starve the B. Become more self-sufficient. No sale, no vote.
It would seem more sensible to write off Virginia and move on to the next state rather than try to rewrite the rules ex-post facto. It sounds too much like what Al Gore tried to do in Florida in 2000.
It would seem more sensible to write off Virginia and move on to the next state rather than try to rewrite the rules ex-post facto. It sounds too much like what Al Gore tried to do in Florida in 2000.
Exactly. Just write VA off. Let your supporters organize and turn out en masse for Ron Paul and embarrass Mitt and the GOP Establishment. Ron Paul is not going to get the nomination anyhow.
The stench, it wreaks.
Godspeed, Patriots.
Petulance isn't Presidential.
WHAT? We are chatting about a primary, right?
No votes have been counted. right?
Are we not discussing getting a NAME on a Ballot?
So this is the same as counting actual Votes 3, 4, 5 times verses NOT ONE vote being allowed for the candidate of our choice?
I don’t agree with the “exactly” comment. but If Newt can not get on the BALLOT then Virginia Conservatives should ALL vote for Ron Paul. Drop mittens and his goons on their heads!
I will not vote for neither Paul nor Romney and I will refuse to give my promised $1000 donation to the RPV. Screw them all! Let Newt and Perry appeal and fix their problems period.
Believe me, I am NOT a PAUL voter. Never will be EVER.
I don’t want either to be elected under any circumstances.
It’s no one’s fault but Newt’s that he isn’t going to be on the ballot. His organizational skills suck.
Hey Darth Vader,
Listen, I understand your great disappointment at this point in time. That $1,000.00 donation you spoke of: Right now, you seem to be under great duress and unable to make a rational decision. So, just send that $1,00000 to me and I will see that it stays in good, Conservative hands.
LOL!!!
Meanwhile Newt leads in EVERY state but two, in the average polling nationally and in Virginia by 5!!
But I understand he's the tea party's, grassroots', and conservative's favorite CANDIDATE. And we can't have THAT running!
This story has not ended.
Merry Christmas!
This is my reply to a request to support NG:
1995 was about the time I watched a press conference on CNN with Newt. I distinctly remember it as Newt told us to read Alvin & Heidi Toffler’s book “The Third Way”.
I went out and got a copy right away as I was excited with Newt becoming Speaker and what I thought was the start of turning things around in this country.
I was shocked at what I read!
This book, endorsed by Newt advocates blending Communism with Capitalism.
Really Newt! Are you kidding me? (No)
In my very humble opinion, I don’t think much of that idea.
The Capitalistic System has served this country pretty well and Communism has been a failure in every country that has dabbled with it. If the hundreds of millions of dead humans that were victim’s of it could speak, I believe they would agree.
I will also say this. Newt was Speaker of the House when he endorsed this concept on a nationally televised press conference.
Communism is the arch enemy of our Capitalistic System. It destroys the human spirit, and untold millions of Human Beings have lost their lives due to it.
I only have one vote and to me it is sacred. I will guarantee you that I will never give it to someone that as a high level government official endorsed incorporating Communism into Capitalism.
To me he is unfit to hold office period.
SP
A perusal of this may be in order also ref. the above.
“treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution.
Article Three defines treason as only levying war against the United States or “in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort
Merry Christmas to you and yours, too!
Gingrich is not the TEA party favorite candidate, that is nothing but propaganda.
Hmmmmm...
Who was your favorite primary candidate in Iowa ‘08 - and this time in IA?
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