I love how he calls anti war people for dirtbags lol

But it really is Hate Whitey Day. Or is it a year-round holiday these days?

Anyways, he should emigrate to The Netherlands. Comments like that will get him +25 seats in Parliament.

Emi it looks like the guys who run VA GOP should be prosecuted for fraud

VA law says you gotta have 10,000 valid signatures
VA law says the state party needs to do the verifying
VA law says the state party draws up the rules for doing it

so the VA GOP made a rule : drop 10,000 signed pieces of paper on their desk and they'd stamp it verified.

somebody sued, so the VA GOP changed that rule around Halloween:  drop 15,000 signed pieces of paper on their desk and they call it verified.  Any less and they run the names in a computer against a list of addresses to check if they're accurate.

VA GOP says Gingrich brought about 12,000 signatures and Perry 11,900.   Now prior to this October the VA GOP would have rubberstamped them as qualified.
However this time they ran the names into computer list and Perry lost 5800, over half, and Gingrich lost enough to drop below 10,000.
Ron Paul brought in 14,000, the VA GOP says they spent 7 hours checking and he had well over 10,000 so they qualified him.
Romney dropped 15,000 signatures on their desk so they qualified him without checking.  They said nobody ever got 15,000 signatures with a 33% failure rate so he must have made it.

bunch of things wrong

1.  I don't know how anybody can read state law and say, "well since I have the duty to swear something is true, and the right to chart my own methods, I can swear its true without checking it."  I'm pretty sure Virginia, which has been around the block govt-wise, has something about making a declaration of fact that isn't true.   Even if VA allowed it, federal elections have to be fair and give equal protection to all candidates.

2.  VA GOP hasn't offered its list of addresses for anybody to verify.

3.  VA GOP hasn't explained how it checked.   Did it run 1000 names and find a failure rate it then extrapolated to the whole submission?  That would explain how Perry can get 50% off and Ron Paul passes "easily".

4.  If Romney failed as bad as Perry, he didn't qualify either.  But the VA GOP doesn't believe he could fail so it certified he didnt/

I think the whole GOP ballot in VA should be discarded

A) I didn't realise that Ron Paul was climbing up the rankings to get this sort of level of hate

B) is this actually your own blog Flint? Or are you copying and pasting again?

> Noir wrote:

> I love how he calls anti war people for dirtbags lol>

I think you're confusing him with someone else. Ron Paul is anti-war. He's explicitly spoken out against US military intervention, and stated that Muslim extremists aren't resorting to terrorism because they hate our freedoms. Rather, he stated it's because "we're over there."

The guy is rather quotable and intelligent. However, he's a lunatic and an idealist. When he speaks about Economics, it's clear his ideas come straight from a textbook on Austrian Economics. I also read reports that he has pictures of Hayek and Mises in his congressional office. Additionally, he is very extreme on non-intervention. I agree that US foreign policy has been far too aggressive, but there are cases where intervention is necessary. My belief is that we should not engage in aggression unilaterally, but should not hesitate to do so when our Western allies are fully committed to the military effort.