You can't make this mess up. I'm beginning to wonder if the GOP is trying to throw this thing
--- Or they are going for a new reality show series on Bravo or something.
Donald Trump goes Independent and FIVE, count'em --- FIVE GOP candidates for President cannot muster up 10,000 legitimate signatures to get themselves on the Virginia primary ballot????
What's going on here?
From the Washington Post Blogs
Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum failed to qualify for the Virginia ballot, according to state GOP officials...
and
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry failed to submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, state GOP officials said Friday evening and early Saturday.
These folk have had 5,099,003,038,172,382 debates. One would think that they would have taken the time to put organization on the ground so that they can get on the ballot.
Is this the work of the MSM pumping these folk up beyond their true worth? Clearly these folk are NOT garnering ANY sort of interest among Republicans. The 'enthusiasm' gap seems to be much wider than we are being told.
I'm reading on conservative sites that they expect Gingrich and Perry to go to court over this and I have not confirmed this, but I'm reading on these sites that Gingrich will not be on the Missouri ballot for February 7th, either.
For Virginia, that would leave Romney and upstart Ron Paul -- both who have the money and the organization.
This could get real ugly real fast.
Without any help from President Obama, the GOP side is imploding all on it's own.
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of morons.
Happy Holly and all that Jazz.
Update: Ooooohhhh...... Gingrich is NOT on MO's ballot either. Confirmed:
Missouri Candidate Filing 2012