Saturday, December 24, 2011

Yes, Virginia, there are no Newt and Rick

HAS THE WINNOWING process begun for two of the Republican Supernovas seeking the presidency? The word from Virginia would lead you to think so. Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have failed to file enough signatures to qualify them for the state's March 6 primary ballot.

That will deny each of them a chance to compete in an important delegate state (where Professor Gingrich was ahead in the polls before he flubbed the qualifying petitions.) We now await his version that election laws, like child labor laws, are stupid.

Is it possible that Mitt Romney, a man for all reasons, will win the GOP nomination by default? (I can't believe I just wrote that!) But with these dismal choices, in the party of the blind, the one-eyed man could be King.






4 comments:

sandra said...

Could it be that Newt's staff sabotaged the geezer -- or does he just not have that many "friends" on Facebook?

PJJinOregon said...

A guy who can't plan and execute well enough to qualify for a primary is NOT the guy I want planning and executing spending/tax policy.

I have pooh-poohed the GOP primary process, but maybe it has a Darwinian value. Blandness survives while sizzle and spark expire.

JLM said...

The GOP Presidential Race...

every day in every way, it gets better and better.

David Hess said...

In both cases, the failure to meet Virginia's well-publicized rules for petitioning to get on the primary ballot is an example of what might happen should either one of them be miraculously elected to the presidency. How could one expect either one of them to organize a one-car funeral from the White House if they can't meet a deadline for collecting petition signatures? Perry, the Texas braggart, has now gone beyond Newt's sour-grapes criticism of the state election board's decision by suing to override the law. He might occupy a throne in Texas but King Rick's "divine right" to overturn another state's law for regular order in elections is beyond imperious.