Santorum will appear on Indiana primary ballot
(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will now appear on the Indiana primary ballot.
The state's election commission voted Friday to put the former Pennsylvania senator on the ballot after the Republican Party in the state ruled in early February that he failed to file enough signatures to qualify for the state's May 8 contest.
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The original tally from Marion County showed Santorum fell short of the 500 signatures necessary in each of the state's nine Congressional districts. But on Friday Marion County certified 500 signatures in support of Santorum, ensuring the four presidential contenders will appear.
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Can you say SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR THE REPUBLICANS?
The Republicans can't seem to do anything smoothly throughout the primary. The same people want to run the most powerful nation on Earth.
watch iraq for sale: the war profiteers. santorum is in there.
Wonder how much bribe money that took?
Indiana's got a lot of Baptists, very conservative outside of Indianapolis and Gary. Rural Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky is actually one region, an Evangelical Unofficial State, if you will.
In other words, this isn't good news for Mitt.
... and let's just hope that by the time that primary rolls around, the GOP-registered people of Indiana will be bright enough to NOT vote for christian ayatolla-wannabe icky Ricky.
If Democratic Candidates were this unorganized the media would be asking if they had the right stuff to run the country. I see the GOP has no problem changing it's rules and moving deadlines at will to accommodate their candidates who can't manage to get themselves on the ballot in every state. If you can't run a campaign how can you run a country.
I am no fan of Rick Santorum or any of the other Marx Brothers currently seeking the Republican Nomination, but why does each state still have its own requirements for who gets on the ballot. I mean, let's be serious. This is for someone seeking the Presidential Nomination, not someone running for Animal Control Officer. There should be one standard for placing a candidate on the ballot for the Presidential nomination in all fifty States and the District of Columbia, not fifty-one sets of hoops to jump through!
Here are the standards: 1 – Is the person a natural-born citizen of the United States? 2 – Is the person at least 35 years of age? If the answers are yes to both then that person deserves a spot.
So undramatic. Where are the hanging chads? And why is this not being contested by the candidates that played by the rules?
I remember all through school, there were people who never completed their projects on time, and somehow, they got away with it. Rick Santorum gets special treatment just like they did.
The GOP primary is crazier than Maury Povich's TV show. Now that's just reprehensible.
Amd they cry voter fraud!!! They declare a winner, and one week later say it was wrong, Refuse to count certin county"s vote. AND THEY CRY FOR A FAIR ELECTION
Rep Allen West, FL, from the crazy extreme right wingnut republican party, was complaining about the cost of gas to fill his Hummer. He must have forgotten that gas was $3.07 a gallon in May of 2007, $3.50 in April of 2008, and $4.11 in July of 2008. That was under "W."
Was he helped by the rep who said that Girl Scouts ard lesbians after a quick look at the background of how they came to be?
These two are cut from the same dirty cloth. Dump on women because they want to do something else with their lives besides being barefoot, pregnant and under their husband's thumb.
What are they afraid of?
Anyone wanna take bets on whether the Ayatollah Santorum refers to it as a "podium" or a "pulpit"?
Marie – Republicans are frightened not only by girl scouts, but also by intelligent women, cartoon characters, the muppets, minorities, the poor, the uninsured, American workers, seniors, and veterans, as well.
santurom, go home...you are an idiot....so is Mitt, but he is next...he follows..
Creepy Ricky is shrinking.
Another "make up the rules as you go along" deal. How is this fair to the candidates that got the required signatures? I honestly don't know how Ron Paul can stomach being affiliated with the GOP.
His PAC money at work. But as a liberal I am happy to see these billionaires waste their money on a loser.
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Love that picture in the article by the way...Hear No Sense, See No Sense and Speak No Sense...and who is the fourth one, I always forget....oh yeah, Shemp.
Yet again the Republicans don't have to follow the same rules that everyone else has to follow.
"Marie – Republicans are frightened not only by girl scouts, but also by intelligent women, cartoon characters, the muppets, minorities, the poor, the uninsured, American workers, seniors, and veterans, as well."
Now now...the Republicans ARE muppets.
See? The Republicans don't always have to rely on SCOTUS, they can change the rules all by themselves.
Where there is a will, there is a way, and Teapubs are trying every which way, except honesty.