Only Romney & Paul on Virginia Ballot
Officials in the Commonwealth of Virginia have announced that only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul qualified for the Super Tuesday ballot, dealing a setback to the campaigns of both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich.
Backers of both Perry and Gringrich submitted more than the 10,000 signatures needed, but not all were judged to be valid by Virginia elections officials.
“Only a failed system excludes four out of the six major candidates seeking access to the ballot," said Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, referring to the fact that Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum also won't be on the Virginia ballot.
"Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates," Hammond said in a Saturday morning statement.
While Hammond vowed to wage a write-in campaign, this news was clearly a victory for Mitt Romney's campaign, at least for now.
But what if Romney stumbles early? Then the Old Dominion could truly be up for grabs in early March.
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Vet4RonPaul
December 24th, 2011
12:20 pm
Enter your comments hereGingrich, Romney, Obama are Chicken Hawks; too Chicken to serve in the military but too hawkish to start another war for other people to fight and die in. They are cowards and bullies; not a good combination.
I’m a military veteran and the troops and veterans cannot stand Chicken Hawks like Gingrich.
Ron Paul is pro-peace, pro-freedom, pro-right-to-bear-arms and anti-NYC-bankster.
brice
December 24th, 2011
12:21 pm
This is (yet another) Victory for Ron Paul. The nation is rising and electing a man of the people.
RON PAUL 2012
your going down Mittens
Barbie Gingrich
December 24th, 2011
12:50 pm
Such a sad day for Newtie, maybe he will take me jewelry shopping to cheer him up. I already told him I’m voting for Ron Paul, just to watch him make those sad puppy dog eyes. Newtie,newtie, newtie, such a cuddly cutie. I can’t figure out why all of America isn’t in love with this rolly polly love doll!!
That mean old mormon romney probably bribed people to sign there names as mickey mouse and pooh bear just so Newtie wouldn’t get enough signatures. I know for a fact that I signed names out of the phone book over 300 times, so there must be enough valid signatures.
Well maybe we can take a cruise on election day, though Newtie says the President really gets to take fabbbbulous vacations. Hawaii, oh I wish newtie were president newt then we could be on vacation all year round.
Really?
December 24th, 2011
12:53 pm
I love it
“But what if Romney stumbles early? Then the Old Dominion could truly be up for grabs in early March.”
No mention that Ron Paul could win – only Mitt Romney could lose.
dom youngross
December 24th, 2011
12:58 pm
So now that Paul has the lead in Iowa and it’s only Paul and Romney on the Virginia primary ballot, neither Iowa or Virginia will count. Wonder how many republican primaries and caucuses Paul must make irrelevant before the republican party defaults to bringing McCain back from the ‘08 grave as the official candidate.
Bryan
December 24th, 2011
1:00 pm
Newt is pathetic. Not only is he a hypocrite and a ChickenHawk, he’s an unorganized looser as well. Doesn’t he live in VA, and he can’t even get on the ballet? Pathetic. How could anyone seriously want that looser as President. Wake up America! Demand truth and principles! Vote Ron Paul!
Venita Peyton
December 24th, 2011
1:04 pm
On one hand, Newt’s right. 10,000 signatures unfairly burdens lesser known and lesser funded candidates. On the other hand, if he had assisted previous Presidential candidates, he could have raised this issue on their behalf – years ago.
Chuck
December 24th, 2011
1:11 pm
The irony is that Newt’s making noises about Paul’s ability to manage his newsletters 20 years ago. He’s questioning Paul’s ability to be president. Well, Paul managed to get on the ballot in Virginia. This is rich.
dom youngross
December 24th, 2011
1:11 pm
Read it and weep Gingrich:
Va. Code section 24.2-529 prohibits write-in ballots in primaries. The rules require 10,000 signatures statewide, including a certain number in each of the state’s congressional districts.
Source: Chicago Tribune, 11:39 am CST.
dom youngross
December 24th, 2011
1:19 pm
Left-off Bachmann now believes Virginia is working on a nuclear bomb and will wipe Minnesota off the map in just a few months. And ground zero will be her house.
Noot Gingrich
December 24th, 2011
1:24 pm
Hey, hey, HEY!!! Get all these damn forks out of me!
JDunning
December 24th, 2011
2:19 pm
I find it interesting that Gingrich blames the ballot access system his party creates and institutionalizes — one designed to keep the unannointed off the ballot — while an establishment “outlier” like Ron Paul figures out how to navigate the system.
Fruit Newt
December 24th, 2011
3:17 pm
Who is sabota…I mean, organizing those campaigns over there in Virginia?
jay
December 24th, 2011
4:09 pm
Gingrich is too stupid to even run his own campaign.
zeke
December 24th, 2011
4:14 pm
given the lengths the gop goes to suppress voter registration this is justice
Alex
December 24th, 2011
4:28 pm
First of all, Paulbots, Ron Paul will never win the nomination and if he does than Obama is shoe-in. Frankly, I am an anybody but Obama voter with one exception, Ron Paul. In the case of Ron Paul versus Obama, I pick liquidation and moving to Panama.
That being said, I think this is another example of the establishment trying to ram Romney down our throats. The only reason Ron Paul is on the ballot on Virginia too is the GOP didn’t want to make what they were doing too obvious. Ron Paul had enough support and signatures that it could be plausible for the GOP to say “well him and Romney are the only ones who met the qualifications” while at the same time pitting Romney against a candidate they are reasonably sure Romney can beat.
If it quacks like a duck...
December 24th, 2011
4:37 pm
If he can’t even run his campaign, it sure has me worried for him to have keys to the White House. To blame the state regulations for not allowing a write-in is so typical. Here is nothing but a case of shear stupidity, nothing else. Well, nothing that can be published here..
catlady
December 24th, 2011
5:04 pm
Hahahaha! This is rich! Maybe Newt can bring some Tiffany baubles to “reclarify” things for the Virginia folks who decided he didn’t have enough signatures. Really, really sad, this guy. I bet he puts on 10 more pounds and hunts another wife–this one just isn’t doing it anymore. And “they will have a write-in,” when it isn’t even allowed! Shows how much they know about Virginia, huh, and he is a resident! Think what a great job this guy would do as President! He’d be even worse than the Shrub, even though he sounds smarter.
How many more will the GOP run through? Surely there is ONE decent, intelligent Republican who could be offered? For the sake of the country, we need strong and intelligent debate about the future–from both sides. Or every side, if you count libertarians, Tea Partiers, and the lunatic fringe.
Grand Old Pooper
December 24th, 2011
5:07 pm
Paul is an old anti-semite soon to drop out of the race when more of his racist ramblings are disclosed. Such a campaign “suspension” will, of course, do nothing, to deter his handful of rabid fanatics.
Will
December 24th, 2011
5:20 pm
If you are a republican, please please make your donation to Newt Gingrich today. Also, it is my understanding that Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are both considering jumping back into the race. Please, please also send them as much as you can today.
Every dollar that goes to the thrice divorced, self-confessed adulterer, the former governor who quit her job in order to sell books and the former pizza salesman who seems to have had as many affairs as pizza sales is a republican dollar that will not be available to the eventual republican nominee!!
Divide and Conquer
December 24th, 2011
5:22 pm
Alex, without us “Paulbots”, you GOPers got nothng. You see I don’t care if the great Messiah gets another term. You give me crap to vote for…I’ll stay home. I look at it this way; if we need to hit rock bottom before we go to rehab and get a real leader, so be it. I am not exactly RP’s biggest fan, but he is much more suitable for a non-partisan like me than any of the other shizz the bi-polar single party DEM/REPUB morons have to offer. Both parties suck, suck, suck!
And Pooper, just who is your favorite politcal turd? Some Anti-Christian, no doubt.
roughrider
December 24th, 2011
6:00 pm
This won’t hurt Newt as he had no chance of winning the nomination anyway.
Mike
December 24th, 2011
6:22 pm
yup, Ron paul makes a lot of sense. This is the elites worst nightmare. Freedom is top priority without it, nothing good will come.
Good luck RP, Canada and the world supports you!
Last Man Standing
December 24th, 2011
6:41 pm
Ron Paul is either extremely naive, or he is stupid.
Take your pick.
Patrick
December 24th, 2011
7:03 pm
So, the fat kid in school that always got beat up, then grew up to be a success, was too busy rubbing everyone’s noses in it to remember to sign up for the Va. primary? And now is blaming Va? I can’t stop laughing! Think of this guy as president!
jay
December 24th, 2011
7:53 pm
All republicans are brain dead devil worshippers.
ATLER
December 24th, 2011
7:54 pm
Newt is a fraud anyway. The loser needs to get a life!!!!
Steve in Acworth
December 24th, 2011
8:24 pm
This is obviously a conspiracy by the evil left-wing elitist leftist socialist communist abortionist democratic media to force conservatives to pick between two candidates they deem unable to beat Obama. What the media fails to realize is that a hamster could beat Obama in November. This has George soros’s name written all over it.
Fruit Newt
December 24th, 2011
8:27 pm
Maybe, if he coughs up $500,000, they’ll let Newt buy into the election.
Obama Rules!!!
December 24th, 2011
8:34 pm
Obama will beat any of these weak republicans easy!!! Four more years!!!!
Arrest!
December 24th, 2011
8:36 pm
After hearing this news, newt has ordered the arrest of the virginia republican party execs! Wait, he’s not president yet!
If it quacks like a duck...
December 24th, 2011
9:56 pm
The GOP circus continues. Country going to Hell in a handbasket. I will annouce the upcoming mother of all yard sales and move to Aruba.
Shine
December 24th, 2011
9:59 pm
Its them pesky states rights that allow states their own elections laws. lmao!! who did these kooks hire as campaign managers? Dumb and Dumber?
When Do We Get Serious
December 24th, 2011
10:04 pm
It is all Obama’s fault! He did this to Newt. What a joke this party has become. First you get the wax warmed on your behind this week. Then your candidates who are borderline ignorant that want to run the country makes this mistake. GOP stands for Getting Off Point. This party is five years from being irrelevant. I voted for McCain against my better judgement (Palin case in point). There is not one person of interest to me in the coming Primary. Sad, just sad!
Bob
December 24th, 2011
10:27 pm
Ron Paul is a pure joke.
ATL Guy
December 25th, 2011
12:07 am
Ron Paul is a racist idiot and will never be President. And people who support him are idiots as well. Get your heads checked.
Good
December 25th, 2011
12:18 am
Now all you idiots planning on voting for newt can vote for mitt. So we conservatives can get the real idiot out of the WH. Like him or not a vote against mitt is a vote for obama.
And you paul supporters that dont see that shouldnt be allowed to vote bc your too stupid to read a poll.
Get rid of your blind idealism like the other 90 percent of the country, let mitt take his place.
Ron Paul is a joke.
If you cant get 10k sigs you shouldn’t be president of the local chamber of commerce.
Bling
December 25th, 2011
12:43 am
newt’s so mad, he just raised his credit line at tiffanys to $750,000! His golddigger wife needs a whole new set of jewels! She good!!
Ken
December 25th, 2011
12:50 am
More arrogance from the Newt camp. As usual they want to change the rules because they did not follow them in the first place. Sounds like when he was speaker… BOOT NEWT.
George W. Bush
December 25th, 2011
1:52 am
Mitt Romney promises to continue all my policies: tax cuts for the rich, more wars, no help for New Orleans, and disastrous economic policies.
I know the only thing that Newt Gingrich cared about was making millions off his government service. He is so inept at running a Presidential campaign that he couldn’t make it on the ballot in Missouri or Virginia. His books will now sell as well as my autobiography. Not even the Koch Brothers will pay to have him speak at their right wing nut festivals, so good bye speaking fees. I don’t think he will return to spouting out dumb opinions on Fox News.
I thought that Americans would no longer hear from Newt after he resigned as speaker in disgrace in 1998. Maybe now we will be free of ego and hair brain ideas.
Ron Hyatt
December 25th, 2011
1:54 am
Ken, it’s the GOP establishment ramming Romney that caused this, by disallowing signatures on the petitions to keep Newt(and everyone but Paul) out. Just say no to Obama Lite.
Hot Dog
December 25th, 2011
4:11 am
Hey Alex…PACK YOUR BAGS AND TAKE THE OTHER LOSERS WITH YOU! GOOD BY AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
By the way, Mitt the loser, can’t win himself out of a paper bag. The issue is, the REDNECK Southerners are still fighting the civil war…believing the south will rise again. Hey REDNECKS, the war was OVER 146 years ago. If you don’t like this country, LEAVE! I’m sure we won’t miss you!
Ken
December 25th, 2011
5:08 am
Ron Paul has some good policies, and some out of this world ones, however isolation is not feasable.
Mitt Romney changes his position everytime the wind blows.
Newt Gingrich is arrogant and has no respect for much of anything except for the millions more he wants to make.
The republican party will not support a candidate that is not so far to the right, or is willing to work across party lines that a viable candidate will not be found.
President Obama is going to win this election.
tom, dick and harry
December 25th, 2011
6:40 am
Romney all the way. Nobama, no problem.
kIM
December 25th, 2011
7:22 am
If you are too damn dumb to get your name on the ballot on time… well. Actually, I can’t figure out how the other repube noms get their shoes on each day, so maybe it makes sense.
The candidates are pathethic. I feel sorry for the repubes who have to choose between these idiots and for president Obama who has to run against them. Fools.
oldman
December 25th, 2011
7:36 am
That’s a joke…an election and no candidates! What’s that going to prove? You have the most liberal and the most conservative crazy in the race. What a waste of time and money.
Good News At Last
December 25th, 2011
8:02 am
And I cannot even fathom his wifie being first lady – she is an insult to all women; he is a money hungry idiot. At last good news and maybe he will just disappear. Bye bye Newtie. Take your arm candy with you.
casual observer
December 25th, 2011
8:35 am
“Flawed system” so much for the party of accountability.
fildawg
December 25th, 2011
9:02 am
HAHAHAHA! Love it when the rule makers get burned by rules intended as favoritism. HAHAHAHA!
VinnyD
December 25th, 2011
10:40 am
Ron Paul can’t win…I feel like I have heard this one before. Maybe you guys can get your head out of your rear end and realize that America might actually be ready for a real change. Newt and Romney are the same ol, same ol. Guess what, they are the reason America said in 2008, “ya know, those republicans haven’t really done anything worthwhile, lets go for this Hussein guy and see what happens”.Ron Paul will bring in the Independent votes along with the republican vote. If all you republicans care about is “anyone but Obama” than your best chance is Ron Paul. Back the same guy the independents are backing and you have someone to beat Pres Hussein. God forbid we get a president who wants to do away our enormous debt.