Bachmann, Santorum fail to qualify delegates on TN presidential ballot (Knoxville News-Sentinel)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Tom Humphrey
Knoxville News Sentinel
Posted December 30, 2011 at 4 a.m.

NASHVILLE — Four of the nine Republican candidates in Tennessee's presidential primary ballot will have no committed delegates on the ballot with them on the March 6 ballot, while Mitt Romney has a surplus wanting to represent him at the Republican National Convention.

Candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Perry also had a substantial slate of committed delegates on the ballot to qualify before the deadline earlier this month. Candidate Jon Huntsman has three — two of them being former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe and his wife, Joan.

Tennessee Republicans will elect delegates as well as choose their favorite as the party nominee March 6, though that part of the election gets relatively little attention. The candidates without delegates on the Tennessee ballot — Michelle Bachmann, Gary Johnson, Charles "Buddy" Roemer and Rick Santorum — can still win them at the polls and have delegates appointed later by the state Republican Executive Committee under party rules.

But getting delegates on the ballot does at least speak somewhat to a candidate's organizational effort in the state, said Tennessee Republican Chairman Chris Devaney, who stresses his neutrality in the primary.

"I do think it shows a certain amount of organization on the part of the candidates who have gotten a good number of delegate candidates to run," he said. "That certainly shows there's a level of organization and that they're thinking beyond the early primaries."
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[tanyev]

1. Huh. Seems like Bachmann would have plenty of delegates who should be committed.

[Scuba]

2. These guys don't really want to be President, they just want to make a few bucks. n/t

[kemah]

3. New GOP business model run for president and sell books

You are quite right. Cain, Trump, Newt, and Palin were only there to sell and profit from the experience. I hope this trend continues because it really cheapens the GOP brand name. It distracts from the serious politicians.

[Scuba]

4. That would be serious politician (singular)...

Huntsman is the only one in that barrel that might be Presidential material.

[tooeyeten]

5. It's not a real race

maybe the're all setting up for their Fox show or book tours.

[sarcasmo]

6. Those two campaigns should be broke by March 6th.

[Sherman A1]

7. This is a group that collectively cannot find

their plate with their fork.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. That sounds like an old Minnie Pearl joke ...

"Oh, Brother don't got the measles. We just been learnin' him to eat with a fork."

[Sherman A1]

9. It indeed might, however it is from

the novel 12 O'Clock High. In the chapter where General Savage is dressing down Col Gately and assigning him a new navigator who "cannot find his plate with his fork."

I use it to get my point across without including the four letter words that can come back to haunt one, particularly in the workplace.