If Gingrich wishes to be president of the USA, he should understand that a leader is responsible for all their subordinates do or fail to do.
The system is not built to prevent people from voting for the candidate of their choice - it is built to ensure that primary candidates in Virginia have a broad base of support - 10,000 total registered Republicans, and a minimum of 400 from each congressional district.
If the candidates felt this requirement was an unfair burden, they should have made their legal case when the injury was first discovered, ie, the day they announced their campaigns.
They didn't - they played by the rules they knew to be in place, gambling that they could railroad a rules change in at the last minute, and then, when they found they couldn't simply get what they wanted, then they sued - 5-6 months after they discovered the injury.
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Date: 2012-02-02 01:25 pm (UTC)If Gingrich wishes to be president of the USA, he should understand that a leader is responsible for all their subordinates do or fail to do.
The system is not built to prevent people from voting for the candidate of their choice - it is built to ensure that primary candidates in Virginia have a broad base of support - 10,000 total registered Republicans, and a minimum of 400 from each congressional district.
If the candidates felt this requirement was an unfair burden, they should have made their legal case when the injury was first discovered, ie, the day they announced their campaigns.
They didn't - they played by the rules they knew to be in place, gambling that they could railroad a rules change in at the last minute, and then, when they found they couldn't simply get what they wanted, then they sued - 5-6 months after they discovered the injury.