Perry sued last month after failing to submit enough signatures to get on the Mach 6 ballot.

He better hurry.

This headline is full of win

LandStander: Perry sued last month after failing to submit enough signatures to get on the Mach 6 ballot.

He better hurry.

Can someone who is smarter than me convert that into MPH? (KPH is also acceptable)

Keep running for office, Perry. Don't give up! Our country's comedians need you.

I love this whole debacle. You want to be President but you can't get your own campaign people organized enough to follow the rules of one lousy state? Bwahahahaha!

cman: Can someone who is smarter than me convert that into MPH? (KPH is also acceptable)

It depends on the air temperature.

cman: This headline is full of win

LandStander: Perry sued last month after failing to submit enough signatures to get on the Mach 6 ballot.

He better hurry.

Can someone who is smarter than me convert that into MPH? (KPH is also acceptable)

Mach 6 is 4567 MPH, and that's an exact conversion.

Tenga: Saw a clip of him from this weekend, and he stated that he was the only true "physical conservative". What the fark does that even mean?

It means Perry's a 'tard. After his dismal showing in Iowa, he said something to the effect that a few early-voting states choosing the Republican nominee "wasn't reality." Uh...yes it is, Rick. Yes it is. Unless you mean something different than the rest of us when you use the word "reality."

I thought people were making shiat up when he got dubbed "Dubya without the intellect"...but I guess not.

Tenga: Saw a clip of him from this weekend, and he stated that he was the only true "physical conservative". What the fark does that even mean?

Republican "rhetoric" (I use the term loosely) is continuing to devolve into word-saladese. It's sort of like the Family Guy thing, "Something, something, something, dark side!". As long as you toss the right words in the sentence at the right points, then idiots will eat it up and cheer loudly because it sounds good.

Just use words like "freedom", "liberty", "family", "God", "Jesus", etc. The words in-between don't matter so much, but you should drop your g's and try to sound folksy, e.g. "You betcha I don't care what all them liberals is sayin'; I'm thinkin' we need more Liberty!"

As long as you're dealing with single-issue, compartmentalizing, low-information voters you can't go wrong.

It's sort of like advertising. "Do you like music/? Then you'll love [Product]!"

"Do you love America? Then vote for me! My opponent hates America!"

pope183: Hey Rick - perhaps the rules they have in place are to keep useless idiots like yourself from wasting everybody's time and the states money...

no support ? it's your own damn fault...

Seriously. 10,000 signatures is not overly burdensome in a state with over 5 million registered voters. Candidates should have to put forth a little more effort than just writing a check for the filing fee.

I can understand the challenge on the requirement that the petitions need to be circulated by Virginia residents - it shouldn't matter who is holding the clipboard. But if you can't find enough volunteers that are Virginia residents, that may also indicate a glaring lack of support in the state.

/Virginia resident
//Would have signed the ballot petitions for any of them
///Have done it for many candidates of many parties
////Never saw anyone collecting signatures, anywhere

RandomExcess: It is pretty clear that people converting Mach 6 into MPH (or KPH) have no idea what Mach 6 is really measuring.

You can convert mach into mph if you state what you're moving through, at what temperature, humidity, air pressure (if moving through air).

Fuggin Bizzy: I thought people were making shiat up when he got dubbed "Dubya without the intellect"...but I guess not.

Spit take......

CharlieBrown: The GOP believes in State's Rights...except of course, for election laws that look like they're going to favor Dems (see FL circa 2000).

FTFY

The answer should be a resounding "NO!"

These candidates farked up, no special allowances.

If Joe Schmo had screwed up and submitted his app with the wrong number of signatures, he'd be told the same thing.

Your staff farked up. Deal with it.

DeltaPunch: Mach 6 is 4567 MPH, and that's an exact conversion.

Oh? At what altitude, humidity, and temperature?

RandomExcess: It is pretty clear that people converting Mach 6 into MPH (or KPH) have no idea what Mach 6 is really measuring.

FINE.

Mach 6 is equal to 3960 mph, given normal atmospheric conditions, a temperature of -70 F, and an altitude of about 40,000 feet.

mmmm Bernoulli