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Gingrich cites fraud but Perry prefers to Sue


U.S. 2012 Election is becoming really fun to watch. Look at Virginia’s presidential nominating contest.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who failed to come up with 10,000 verifiable signatures, (to satisfy Virginia’s qualification process) has accused a worker hired by his campaign of fraud.

“We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud,” Gingrich says.

Read the Reuters Story

This may well be true. What I find idiotic is that he has such an incompetent campaign team. I mean if you know you definitely need 10,000 signatures and also know that one person has about 1,500 hundred of them, you would definitely make sure the person was sound. And if he says that he had been unaware that one person held 1,500 signatures, then, he is even more incompetent than I suspect.

Would you trust the reins of your country with someone who is not able to oversee his own campaign without being made to look silly?

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