Posted on 12/24/2011 7:49:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
I just started a new facebook page as a place for grassroots conservatives to urge Virginia to allow the leading Republican contender for the presidency onto the Virginia ballot. Gingrich is the Republican leader nationwide and in Virginia! It's absolutely ludicrous, if not criminal, for Virginia to deny the conservative base and tea party favorite a spot on the ballot while they promote their elite ruling class RINO!
Do not allow Virginia to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of conservative grassroots voters who would mark their ballots for Newt Gingrich! Adding insult to injury, they don't even allow write-ins on their ballots!
It truly is a one man election (disregarding the Ron Paul nutcake). You can vote for anyone you wish in Virginia as long as his name is Mitt Romney.
We need to write or call the Republican Party of Virginia to register our outrage and if you are a facebook user, please visit and "Like" the "Newt Gingrich on Virginia Ballot" page.
Thank you all very much, and Merry Christmas!!
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.
Let the rule makers be held accountable next time.
It looks like these rules will come back to haunt RPV but they cannot pick and choose at this point, who will be on the ballot.
Perhaps it just demonstrates the critical need to prevent errors (whether intentional or otherwise).
I’ve read that the reason the candidates were denied was because addresses were not included or they were not updated with the electronic database. (Remember: “garbage in, garbage out”)
If this is the case, and the voters themselves are legit, there should be a mechanism to include those signers.
Absolutely, if these are legitimate signatures, the error must be fixed.
Ditto, Jim!!!
I’ve come to this discussion late but it really ticks me off to see what’s happening, especially given how the GOP has seemed so intent on doing everything possible to clear the way for Romney.
My understanding is that Virginia primary was moved up earlier time around, thereby allowing candidates less time to fulfill the requirements. If that is true then they should have scaled down the requirements. By not doing so it gives the appearance of Virginia being set up as a firewall designed to protect the establishment candidate by effectively cutting off all those who caught fire late in the game (such as Newt), candidates who throughout much of their run didn’t have the funds (unlike Romney) to fully canvass the state.
Intentionally or not, it smacks of yet another stab in the back to all who dare to challenge the preordained pick. At the very least they should allow the option to write-in a candidate as a means of fixing this fiasco.
>>Purposley removing voters choices, a rat move from the rat book
I’d argue that changing the rules after the fact, to accommodate someone who didn’t follow (or bother to understand) the rules, is an equally bad practice.
It will haunt the RPV as I am canceling my donation to them and I will not stump for Romney or Paul even if it means Obuggery gets reelected.
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.
"Whoever in Virginia came up with this hurdle to get on a ballot may have had good intentions, but it’s a heavily flawed system that needs to be changed. If 5 out of 7 candidates failed to qualify, that’s evidence enough that it’s not workable. Does the RPV want Obama to be re-elected? Does the RPV not want its residents to have a clear choice in its Republican primary? Does the RPV only want the candidates with the most funds to prevail? Because that’s the way its system is designed."
One thing I would change though. The intentions were not good :
Larry Sabato Dec. 24th 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/larrysabato
VA’s D legislature thought the rules up, knowing they would benefit themselves & friends. Then Rs, once in power, liked restrictions too.
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.
It sure looks that way. And it’s absolutely ludicrous that the Virginia GOP has rejected the LEADING Republican candidate — leading nationally AND in the state of VIRGINIA!!
And the LEADING Republican they reject is a genuine Reaganite and veteran of the Reagan Revolution and LEADER of the Republican Revolution as opposed to their accepted and promoted RINO candidate who openly denied and rejected Ronald Reagan and effectively governed exactly opposite the official Republican party platform!!
“I was an independent during Reagan-Bush, I’m not returning to Reagan-Bush” —Mitt Romney
Romney championed abortion, gay rights, gun control, liberal activist judges and government approved socialized healthcare, complete with mandates against individuals and penalties for non-compliance, and his idiotic budget-busting program even provides tax payer funded abortion!! And he still brags about this program today as a conservative solution!! Give me a break!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU
And these idiots promote him to run against Obama?!! And reject all other conservatives?!!
This is not your father’s GOP!!
Merry Christmas!!
But it is the thought that Virginia has refused a major candidate based on irregularities in their own system.
Then why did McDonnell endorse Romney, as well as the Lt. Governor being a major campaign manager for Romney.
It still reeks. I don’t care how you cover for them. They look extremely bad and this needs to be fixed immediately, or it will damage the outcome of the main election.
Amen. Reeks of corruption and inside dealing!!
Liked 139! :-)
Also posted to my FB wall, Jim.
You have my full support Boss! Anything I can do to help.
Only 139” likes” so far.
UP to 141 now. It’s Christmas holiday, but it does appear that my first attempt at activism on facebook is a flub.
They are getting a lot of complaints posted to their wall page though:
http://www.facebook.com/VirginiaGOP?sk=wall
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