Santorum-Paul alliance formed in WA

[Bacon King]

God bless these Paultards.

Anything for THE DELEGATES!

[Bacon King]

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I'm not quite sure how holding a do-over Primary is punishing VA.

The Virginia GOP primary was held in accordance with Virginia law and RNC bylaws. Why should (and for that matter, how could) Virginia be forced to foot the bill for a contest when the only problem was that Santorum and Gingrich are running inept campaigns that couldn't collect enough signatures? Do you also think there should be a revote in those congressional districts in Ohio and Illinois where Santorum forgot to file delegate slates?

[Bacon King]

Ben, stop being dense, bro. A re-vote in Virginia is an impossibility, and the reasoning for it is a bit ridiculous anyway.

Why exactly should:

1. The Virginia legislature arbitrarily alter their existing primary laws
2. The VA GOP and RNC arbitrarily allow a new primary to occur, even though the preceding one was perfectly legal
3. The VA GOP and RNC arbitrarily (and probably illegally?) rescind the delegates that were awarded in March
4. The RNC arbitrarily ignore its own rules regarding the date that states had to finalize their primary date
5. The Virginia government (or the Republican Party, for that matter) pay the ~$10 million dollars an election would take

ALL because Gingrich and Santorum failed to get enough signatures to legally appear on the ballot, which wasn't anyone's fault but their own?

[Bacon King]

Again, you're missing the fact that neither the RNC nor Virginia would go to this sort of trouble to give Santorum and Gingrich a second chance just because they failed at gathering signatures last time. It'd be a huge hassle and an irrelevant waste of money to go through the motions for this when the GOP Establishment wants the race to be done with ASAP anyway.

Besides, what happens if, even assuming that somehow a new primary is organized, Gingrich and Santorum again fail to get enough signatures to appear on the ballot?