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Gingrich Campaign: Failure to Get on Virginia Ballot Analogous to Pearl Harbor

by: lowkell

Sun Dec 25, 2011 at 19:03:17 PM EST


No, apparently, this is not a joke by the Newt-sters:
By now you've likely heard that our effort to gain access to the primary ballot in Virginia was not successful. This was not due to a lack of effort by our volunteers, but the cumbersome process in Virginia.

We are exploring alternate methods to compete in Virginia - stay tuned.

Going forward, we will be as in-front of the process as possible and with the help of our grassroots volunteers we will make all other deadlines.

Newt and I have talked three or four times today and he stated that this is not catastrophic - we will continue to learn and grow. Remember that it was only a few months ago that pundits and the press declared us dead after the paid consultants left. They declared that the decision not to compete in the Ames Straw Poll would mean that Iowans would ignore us. Some will again state that this is fatal.

Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941: We have experienced an unexpected set-back, but we will re-group and re-focus with increased determination, commitment and positive action. Throughout the next months there will be ups and downs; there will be successes and failures; there will be easy victories and difficult days - but in the end we will stand victorious.

OK, can we all agree that there's something seriously wrong with Newt Gingrich, starting with pathological narcissism and megalomania? By the way, gotta love the continued whining about how this has nothing to do with the Newt campaign's own, utter incompetence, it's because Virginia's ballot access requirements - ones that Gary Bauer, Dennis Kucinich, and many other presidential candidates have managed to fulfill over the years - are terribly unfair. Quick, somebody call the waaaaaambulance for Newt Gingrich, it's an emergency!
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Does this mean... (0.00 / 0)
...that Newt's preparing a declaration of war against us?  Can't wait to see him in his plus-size Generalissimo costume...

Impeachinelli! Now on Twitter.

What happened? (0.00 / 0)
So what DID go wrong? Maybe it's academic at this point, but it would be interesting to know how they managed to screw it up. And how much responsibility can reliably be laid on Gilmore?

Yes and Yes (4.00 / 1)
Since I firmly believe that Gingrich first got into the race to sell books and push up the already ridiculous fee he gets for speeches, he never bothered with "little details" like having any organization. Then, the GOPers who are so averse to having to put Mitt Romney signs in their yard next year (I don't blame them) began their trial runs of every other has-been in their pitiful field of "contenders." Newt got his turn and his ego that is larger than his ample tummy evidently thought he would win the whole thing. So, there was a mad dash to find people to gather signatures in Virginia. I agree that the system is cumbersome is deliberately designed to keep all but "establishment" candidates off the ballot, but as Lowell pointed out, lots of other so-called "minor" candidates have managed to do it.

As for Gilmore? 'nuff said.  


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If Virginia booting Gingrich was Pearl Harbor, (0.00 / 0)
Then this long-seemingly endless Republican Campaign we're in for is going to be the Bataan Death March.  

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