bring it, you fat maniacal ass-pimple

"So far, only former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul are officially on the primary ballot."

LOL!

vartian: You can practically hear the slide whistle.

or yakkitty sax

themindiswatching: No big loss, he didn't want to win the nomination anyway.

This is very true. Gingrich will not be the nominee. He's not trying to be the nominee. Everyone in Washington knows this. Most of the pundits you see on TV know this. Yet very few are speaking up.

This is as close to an "emperor has no clothes" scenario as you could get, short of a situation that involved an actual naked emperor.

It's a problem for the Republicans, since Newt is sucking up all kinds of media attention, leaving the party without a clear competitor to Romney.

I'm not a Republican, but if someone were wasting everyone's time by trying to sell books and increase their speaking fees as a faux candidate in my party, I'd be pissed right off.

Sorry Newt. You don't follow the rules, you don't get to play.

abb3w: Well, at least he's buffing his credentials as a buffoon....

His credentials as a buffoon where verified when he shut down the government back in the
90's and all because he was forced to sit in the back of air force one by Clinton.

How does he plan on invading Virginia? My advice is that he should start from the Southwest, and move Northward. The campaign will be longer than if he started from the north, but he can get recruits as he heads north towards the DC lib crowd. He's a historian, he's should know this.

When he's president, he'll send federal marshals to arrest Virginia.

namatad: DarwiOdrade: Only a failed candidate can't get the measly 10,000 signatures needed to appear on the primary ballot.

this is the problem with this pretend candidacy
in the beginning, it was just debates and selling more books and speeches.
But now since the real candidates have dropped out or been pushed out and no one wants the remaining candidates, newt's campaign became "real"

WHOOOOPS
now we have to get on the ballots???
BWHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA

here is a question:
why does a candidate for a national office need to get on states ballot?
why cant an independent run for prez and get on the national ballot for president?

and THAT is why our system is so farked up.

8 million people live in Virginia, according to the 2010 census. 6 million are over 18. ALL a candidate has to do is get 10,000 of those people to sign a petition to get him on the primary ballot.

It's not a very high bar, and Newt made NO attempt to clear it.

MFAWG: namatad: DarwiOdrade: Only a failed candidate can't get the measly 10,000 signatures needed to appear on the primary ballot.

this is the problem with this pretend candidacy
in the beginning, it was just debates and selling more books and speeches.
But now since the real candidates have dropped out or been pushed out and no one wants the remaining candidates, newt's campaign became "real"

WHOOOOPS
now we have to get on the ballots???
BWHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA

here is a question:
why does a candidate for a national office need to get on states ballot?
why cant an independent run for prez and get on the national ballot for president?

and THAT is why our system is so farked up.

8 million people live in Virginia, according to the 2010 census. 6 million are over 18. ALL a candidate has to do is get 10,000 of those people to sign a petition to get him on the primary ballot.

It's not a very high bar, and Newt made NO attempt to clear it.

What it tells me are only two of the front runners have their shiat together.

So the only two candidates that figured it out are the two that have run campaigns before. Huh. It's almost as if you have to have some type of skill besides saying freedomy sounding nonsense.

NewportBarGuy: Is Bob Dole available to run? At least he has honor.

Dole's endorsed Romney. So did Bush, Sr, in his own way.

High. Farking. Comedy.

I'm still saying Romney will be the candidate. Glad to see out of the whole field that the one who didn't drop the ball in VA was Paul.

Damn! Next he'll be telling us the Germans didn't bomb Pearl Harbor

namatad: DarwiOdrade:
here is a question:
why does a candidate for a national office need to get on states ballot?
why cant an independent run for prez and get on the national ballot for president?

and THAT is why our system is so farked up.

A candidate for a national office? Funny, I wasn't aware this was the presidential election. He's running for his party's nomination for president. If he wants to run for a national office without being the party candidate, he's free to do so.

As for an independent running for president, most of the time they can't gather enough support to be put on the ballot for each state. That said, if you can gather the support, you will be on the ballot, look at Perot. The reason for this is relatively simple: ease of elections. While we may argue about the requirements for being on the ballot sheet, imagine a ballot sheet that covers 3 walls with the names of hundreds of presidential candidates, most of whom people have never heard of. If barely anyone (percentage wise) knows about the Green Candidate, who do you think knows about single issue candidate Joe from Wisconsin and whose only requirement to fill up space on the ballot sheet was paying for it?

And lord, please, please let Ron Paul win on the "Anyone but Romney" ticket. That would be priceless.