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But he’s grown on me, he’s unflappable, he’s Presidential. ..his speeches are great.
It’s time we all rally around him. It’s time.
Posted on 01/13/2012 1:19:30 PM PST by Hunton Peck
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) - Federal District Court Judge John Gibney ruled against Texas Governor Rick Perry and other Republican presidential candidates who sued in an effort to appear on the ballot for the Virginia Republican primary in March.
Judge Gibney announced the ruling Friday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia.[CLICK HERE: Read the judge's order] The suit was originally filed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Jon Hunstman later joined the challenge.
According to court documents, the Republican candidates failed to meet the 10,000 signature petition requirements to get on the ballot.
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul met the requirements.
Monday, Judge Gibney ordered the distribution of absentee ballots for Virginia's Republican primary to be halted until the legal challenge could be settled.
The ruling isn’t based on States’ Rights, but on the equitable doctrine of laches — essentially, that the plaintiffs should have filed suit as soon as they entered the race last summer.
He specifically says that they would have been entitled to the relief sought had they filed sooner.
"Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring PACs.
(signed) Mitt Romney"
Mr. niteowl77
Bullshit.
He's a slick, double-talking, backstabbing socialist.
A pox on him.
“But have you listened to Romney’s words lately? I was no fan of his but he has shown me something of late.”
LOL, are you serious? Romney’s words mean nothing—he has been on both sides of every issue. Who in the world could believe anything he says?
IB4TZ
C’mon. He’s the father of RomneyCare and grandfather of ObamaCare! And he still brags about it as a “free-market” solution today!
Give me a fricken break already.
Any Presidential Candidate who was not smart enough to have their Staff do a “Google” search to figure out what they needed to do is not a Candidate I want in the running for President of The United States.
“In his opinion, Judge Gibney wrote, “They [the candidates hoping to appear on the ballot] knew the rules in Virginia many months ago; the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions. The plaintiffs could have challenged the Virginia law at that time. Instead, they waited until after the time to gather petitions had ended and they had lost the political battle to be on the ballot; then on the eve of the printing of absentee ballots, they decided to challenge Virginia’s laws.”
Too Bad. So Sad. That is Personal Responsibility which comes with Freedom.
RPV rules say NO WRITE-INs will be counted.
No thanks.
But he’s grown on me, he’s unflappable, he’s Presidential. ..his speeches are great.
It’s time we all rally around him. It’s time.
equal protection is the feds butting in.
prohibiting a poll tax is the feds butting in.
prohibiting literacy tests for voting is the feds butting in.
18 years old voting age is the feds butting in.
Why not just impliment card check style primary voting then?
That reasoning will likely hold up on appeal.
Thank you. That can’t be stated often enough. It’s disheartening that more on this site don’t see it that way.
IBTZ
I thought the key would be that the judge couldn’t sever the petition number requirement from the petition-gatherer restrictions.
But, ta-da!, ‘Laches’: the judge could have if Perry had filed when he started getting petition-gatherers.
Following politics is an education in law LOL!
Well, you just let this entire forum know exactly how gullible you are. Unreal!
Oh, now I understand. You’re one of those guys who claims it’s not that socialism doesn’t work, it’s just that our efficient managerial types (like statist Romney, for instance) hasn’t been in charge:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2820455/posts
well, bye.
ROMNEY???????? What are you, 19 years old? What in God’s name is wrong with you? Does your hearing not work to well? Reading problems? His record is a horror show! If selected, Romney will be by far the worst candidate conservatives have ever put up. Then again, maybe you are just kidding with your post....because no FReeper is as brain dead stupid enough to support willard.
I’m sure there will be wailing and moaning similar to the announcement that neither Perry nor Gingrich made the ballot, accusations of bias/prejudice, etc. but this is the right decision (albeit not what I expected).
They KNEW, their campaigns knew, and the didn’t get the job done. Had they spent the resources on the petition signature drive that they did on the lawsuit, we wouldn’t be discussing this today, as we haven’t discussed it in the past many election cycles.
Good Riddance!
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