Posted on 12/31/2011 11:19:19 AM PST by katiedidit1
Less than a week after announcing that only two GOP presidential candidates qualified to appear on their ballot, the Republican Party of Virginia has adopted a new measure that may leave voters in the state scratching their heads: a loyalty oath.
On Wednesday the Virginia State Board of Elections approved a request from the Virginia GOP that will require voters to sign a loyalty oath in order to participate in the state’s presidential primary on March 6. A spokesman for the state’s election board tells ABC News that although some details are still in the works, voters wishing to cast a ballot must take the pledge.
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Noooooo, they all knew the rules, if they can't organize.........yada, yada, yada.
I wan't Mayo on my cr@p sandwich, doesn’t look like I will be getting a choice of flavors.
BS. It is none of “the party’s” business who I vote for in the general election.
Maybe I could help.
See, this is what I don't get. I understand in this instance it may be causing problems for Gingrich, and in my opinion Paul shouldn't be in the GOP primary anyway. Still, why shouldn't a political party ask/expect you to vote for it's eventual nominee if they are going to allow you to participate in their nomination process? You can think for yourself all you want, but you are not entitled to vote in the Republican primary is your not really a Republican.
The Republican party is a political party. They can choose their nominee however they want. If people don't like it they can form their own political party. If someone wants to be part of choosing a political party's candidate, why shouldn't the party expect that person to support the eventual nominee?
I'd like too see to it that Democrats and independents don't vote in GOP primaries. I think that influence in places like NH is exactly why RINO types like John McCain are able to win GOP nominations. Anything we can do to weed out non-Republicans from voting in our primaries seems like a net plus to me.
As far as I am concerned, the party should have worked to prevent Paul from being a GOP candidate anyway. He is not a conservative, and has already demonstrated he will quit the party and not endorse its eventual candidate. Paul is just using the GOP label because he knows no one would pay any attention to him with an (L) after his name.
Allen is a moral and ethical coward. That’s why a sex pervert beat him like an old rug.
It sounds really dumb to me to demand a loyalty oath.
When you enter the booth to vote in the general election, you go alone, and an oath I am forced to take is no oath at all. The only oath I will feel .to keep is one I make of my own free will.
Force me to take an oath and you can KMA
This won't work in either the short run or the long run ~ and there won't be a long run for this crowd.
Did you see how they are giving up a Senate Seat as well as eventually Electoral College votes ~ these geeks aren't Republicans at all. Time to purge the state committee!
Then why do you want to vote in a Republican primary? Your not entitled to do so. Political party's can exclude those who don't share its goals. If you don't like it, then make your own party and choose your own nominee however you'd like.
Again, in this particular case it seems like this isn't working out since Ron Paul the kook is on the ballot and the guy who I am supporting, Gingrich, is not. All I am getting at is, why shouldn't a political party insist that those who help nominate its candidate actually be a supporter of the party? I don't want Democrats and independents voting in GOP primaries. It is watering down conservative vote percentages in states like NH and allowing RINO's like McCain to win primaries they otherwise shouldn't if only Republicans were voting.
Do you think that nutjob racist senile goober is going to be our nominee?
I got a bridge to sell you then.
Does my oath count if I’m laughing while signing it?
I hate to say this but the point of the oath is going to be moot too. Did you see this yet?
Virginia Attorney General Intervenes in GOP Primary Ballot Dispute
foxnews.com ^ | 12/31/2011 | Carl Cameron
Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:43:16 PM by TBBT
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in the Virginia presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their name on the ballot, Fox News has learned. Only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul qualified for the Virginia primary, a contest with 49 delegates up for grabs. The failure of other candidates to qualify — notably Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry — led to complaints that the 10,000-signature requirement is too stringent. Cuccinelli, who is a Republican, shared the concerns. “Recent events have underscored that our system is deficient,” he said in a statement. “Virginia owes her citizens a better process. We can do it in time for the March primary if we resolve to do so quickly.” Cuccinelli’s proposal is expected to state that if the Virginia Board of Elections certifies that a candidate is receiving federal matching funds, or has qualified to receive them, that candidate will upon request be automatically added to the ballot. Two former Democratic attorneys general are also backing the move, along with a former Democratic state party chairman and a former Republican state party chairman. Former state Attorney General Tony Troy called the Virginia process a “legal and constitutional embarrassment.”
Aren't you confusing legally mandated local, state and federal elections with political primaries? As far as I know, political party's are under no obligation to be democratic at all. If the Republican party wanted to choose their nominee in a smokey room somewhere they could. Party's actually often have super delegates that could, in theory, completely override the will of the primary voters in a close contest.
Again, the point is, you do not have a right to vote in the GOP primary. The Republican party decides how it's nominees are chosen and, in general, keeping Democrats, independents and those with no intention of voting for the eventual party nominee from participating in the process seems a worthy goal to me.
As I said, in this case the process is already kind of broken because goofball Ron Paul is one of our candidates even though he will never support the actual nominee. In the future, I'd like to see people like Ron Paul who are drawing largely Democrats and independents into the GOP primary process excluded from running in the Republican party. He is a libertarian, let him run in that party where he actually belongs.
The party can make whatever rules in the primary they want, in the general it’s not their business.
I’ll be glad to take an oath to not send and more money to the GOP until they purge themselves of the idiot who came up with this plan and the stupid lemmings that supported it.
I will in no way be obligated to support the socialist candidate they are trying to force on the electorate.
Agreed. And obviously a loyalty oath is no way binding at all. It is just an "honor system" thing that is used to discourage non-Republicans from voting in Republican primaries. As VA has no party registration, my guess is the party is just trying to discourage Democrats, independents and libertarians from voting in GOP primaries when they have no intention of actually voting for the eventual nominee (Ron Paul will not be the nominee).
An oath taken under duress is non-binding, especially when I will vote as I please.
Huh? Of course I don’t....
I love that the article neglects to point out that the Democrats did the same thing in 2008.
You mean like McCain? Like Romney?
VA GOP sounds like a cult. Sad.
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