The reason Newt didn’t get on the ballot in Virginia is because the VA GOP workers decided they would require petitioners to also provide their ADDRESS. Only they didn’t tell anybody that. So they ended up throwing out enough petitioners that Newt and Santorum didn’t make it on the ballot. The Mitt and Ron Paul petitioners never got checked for addresses because the VA GOP head set an arbitrary “grace margin” - a certain number of excess signatures that would supposedly guarantee that the candidate had enough valid ones even if there was fraud. And Ron Paul and Mitt Romney had enough signatures that they fit into that grace margin.
IOW, as long as they had ENOUGH Mickey Mouse signatures on the petitions, the signatures on the petitions for that candidate would never be checked for validity. Newt and Santorum just missed that number (aw, shucks), Romney and Ron Paul just exceeded that number (imagine that), so Newt and Santorum’s signatures were checked and excluded because they didn’t have addresses provided - which was an extra requirement (not provided for by state law) that the VA GOP just sort of tacked on there without telling anybody. If there had been enough with addresses, they would have required mother’s maiden name, height and weight, or some other nonsense - whatever their whims told them because God knows nobody has to know what the rules are before the rules apply...
And now you know why I believe the GOPe is just as criminal as the DNC. There is foul play all over the place - some of it in plain sight like this, where the GOPe apparently has no fear of any consequences (which should tell us what else they are capable of...)
I’ve been talking a lot about lawlessness. Well, the GOPe speaks mobster language just like the dems do...
Oh, I definitely agree that the GOP is criminal. I’m not even going to bother to distinguish the GOP-e, the whole thing sucks.
I don’t have any doubt that nonsense occurred in Virginia. However, dirty tricks should be anticipated. This should not happen to any candidate again in the future. Make sure you got more than what you need, especially if you are conservative, otherwise the GOP will toss you right out.
It should be well known now that the GOP is the enemy of conservatives and the Tea Party, and it is the friend of democrats. Everyone must now know this, including us, all rank and file, anyone running under their header, anyone making donations, anything of the sort.
The GOP is not only part of the problem, it is a HUGE part, and I’m done with it November 3, 2012 12:00:01 am