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Posted on 01/13/2012 1:49:52 PM PST by Quicksilver
Following a hearing in Richmond today, U.S. district judge John Gibney ruled against Rick Perry's challenge to the Virginia ballot rules.
In his opinion, Gibney says Perry, and the other candidates who joined the challenge, waited too long to bring the suit.
"They knew the rules in Virginia many months ago; the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions," he writes. "They 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. In essence, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair."
The decision means Perry, as well as Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman, will not appear on the ballot in the state's March 6 primary.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
lets get a US constitutional amendment to have all state, US Presidential candidate selection votes (primaries/caucus/magic 8 ball, whatever), to occur on the same day.
I am sick of tired of having the vote come to my state with the candidate already picked(for the most part). This ticks me off every election cycle.
Oh, Quack!
The primary process has become one big farce. Who actually gives a damn anymore except the MSM? Why will states like Virginia and Illinois even waste the money on a primary?
I am doing that and am encouraging others to do the same.
This makes no sense, no sense at all. In the meantime, we are fighting for democracy elsewhere.
Good. One less conservative to split 2% off of whatever conservative/s is/are left standing (if any) when the show arrives in VA.
I have always been against voting third party because of the Perot/Clinton result. At some point though, the Republicans have to stop catering to moderates and independents. A big tent doesn’t advance conservatism. And if we’re not advancing conservatism, what is the point of voting Republican?
(Flame away!)
Agreed. I think it says a lot about the organization of candidates who fail to fulfill state election requirements. Running for President is not an easy task, so it should force candidates to step it up and get their ground games going for all kinds of reasons.
Poorly played by several in the pot. I’m dissapointed.
They should break the primaries up into 3rds over a 3 month period. This will allow the serious candidates to stay in and the weak candidates to be culled early.
Yep. Otherwise, Mitt benefits most.
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Perry filed it immediately, judge must be speaking of the others who waiting too long. This could be fast tracked to the USSC.
How pathetic. It’s either unconstitutional or it’s not. Constitutionality doesn’t change based on an arbitrary timeframe. Where does the Constitution stipulate that freedom speech has an expiration date?
Our Media will give you the hall passes they always have.
It is over. Wave good bye. Bow out like a man.
Hope that no one who wants to run for Govenor has been a coma for the past year.
“If Perry’s debate performance didn’t eliminate him for you, surely that combined with his inability to make it on the ballot should, much less the ‘vulture capitalism’ crap he’s peddling.”
His EARLY debate performances made no difference in my support for Perry, since the reason for them was considerable pain due to back surgery. His debate performances are just fine now.
On the other thread about this subject, the owner of FR stated that Perry did not attack capitalism, he attacked Romney. Too bad others can’t see the truth of that.
We would have but she decided not to run.
I have seen more stupid posts on this one thread than I’ve seen a week.
Most of the people gloating over this don’t seem to realize that all the viable candidates except Romney will be off the ballot.
The other percent who realize this are just so happy that Perry (who actually filed a timely suit) will be off the ballot that they’ve lost all sense of reason.
People gloating over Perry will be sorry when no good candidates are left.
And to you, who are so ignorant you claim the Texas press gives Perry a pass when they have fought and despised him for years, I don’t even know what to say.
Who thought that VA would throw out signatures that were gathered by out of state volunteers.
To bad VA is stuck with a choice between Crazy and Blank Picture.
One less? Did you read it? Virginia now has a choice of Romney or Paul. That's it.
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