Newt Gingrich won't be able to mount Virginia write-in effort (LA Times)

[pinto]

Newt Gingrich won't be able to mount Virginia write-in effort

Newt Gingrich's campaign, having failed to meet the ballot requirements for Virginia's Super Tuesday presidential primary, announced Saturday that it will ask his supporters to write in his name instead.

But Virginia law does not allow write-in ballots in primary elections.

Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor, said Virginia Code section 24.2-529 prohibits write-in ballots in primaries.

Gingrich's campaign has blamed Virginia's primary rules for his failure to qualify. But Tobias, in an emailed comment, said Gingrich "looks foolish and disorganized" for not qualifying and also for complaining about Republican party rules that "are meant to insure broad-based support, especially in rural districts."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-newt-gingrich-write-in-bid-in-virginia-20111224,0,3545603.story

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Rules are for everyone else

Newter is already bloviating about bringing down his wrath upon Virginia and the conservatroid laws designed to disenfranchise potential Democratic voters. State's rights only appeal to reactionary bastids when their personal interests are served. Where was Newter when those shithogs enacted a law they thought would work in their favor?

[opihimoimoi]

3. Prof Smart met REALITY and he said the NOOT is MOOT....can't vote in his own home State = DUMBNESS

[Kennah]

2. I stopped reading at Virginia, and I thought he might have just met his fourth wife

[dimbear]

4. The problem has been authoritatively traced down and is not due in any way to Gingrich.

All guilt lies with an irresponsible staffer named Max, who is, oddly, a Redbone Coon hound.