Judge throws out Perry trying to get on VA ballot

[Riot]

If your campaign is this disorganized, trying to find an activist judge to overturn the law and cya isn't a good fallback plan.

Hey! It's a chance for Ron Paul to beat Romney in a one-on-one contest ...

Following a hearing in Richmond today, U.S. district judge John Gibney ruled against Rick Perry's challenge to the Virginia ballot rules.

In his opinion, Gibney says Perry, and the other candidates who joined the challenge, waited too long to bring the suit.

"They knew the rules in Virginia many months ago; the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions," he writes. "The plaintiffs could have challenged the Virginia law at that time. Instead, they waited until after the time to gather petitions had ended and they had lost the political battle to be on the ballot; then, on the eve of the printing of absentee ballots, they decided to challenge Virginia's laws. In essence, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair."

The decision means Perry, as well as Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman, will not appear on the ballot in the state's March 6 primary.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-...it-110781.html