{"id":5281,"date":"2011-12-25T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2011-12-25T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T15:08:25","slug":"time-to-cull-the-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5281","title":{"rendered":"Time to cull the heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickperry.org\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Perry<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newt.org\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-12-25\/gingrich-fails-to-make-republican-primary-ballot-in-virginia.html\" target=\"_blank\">failed to gather enough signatures<\/a> to be on the March 6 primary ballot in Virginia. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelebachmann.com\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Bachmann<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jon2012.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Huntsman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksantorum.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Santorum<\/a> also <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/12\/22\/fiasco-bachmann-huntsman-santorum-fail-to-make-virginia-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t make the cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pathetic<\/span>. \u00a0They only had to obtain 10,000 signatures statewide. \u00a0That they were unable to do so demonstrates a clear lack of organization and of grassroots GOP support for their candidacies. \u00a0It&#8217;s time for some of these people to recognize they don&#8217;t have what it takes to become president and drop out.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D5281&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5281\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5281\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5281\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Rick Perry and\u00a0Newt Gingrich failed to gather enough signatures to be on the March 6 primary ballot in Virginia. \u00a0Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum also didn&#8217;t make the cut. 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