Mitt Romney, Ron Paul Avoid Ballot Blunders Made By Rival Candidates (PHOTOS)

Several of the Republican candidates for president have failed to get on the ballot in some primaries or failed to file full slates of delegates in others, limiting their ability to win delegates in those slates. The exceptions: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

"This is why you need a real-life, no-kidding-around campaign," said GOP strategist Rich Galen, a former aide to Newt Gingrich, according to the Associated Press. "All these guys who have been crowing that they found a new way to run for president, it's like saying I'm inventing a new airplane, and it has only one wing."

Below, a slideshow of ballot blunders made by candidates competing for the Republican presidential nomination.

Comments

[JoePenn]

03:08 PM on 01/13/2012

Of all the senators and congresspersons who've ever served or are serving now, has anyone of them declined a pension from the US Govt for his/her work?
Yeah - one - Ron Paul.

As an OB/GYN, he also would perform birthings for free, rather than take tax-payer funded, governmnent-provided Medicare. Does that happen elsewhere?

He's also never voted, in over 2 decades, for a tax increase of any sort.

[kathy smelser]

02:33 PM on 01/13/2012

you must be kidding did i hear this correctly Rick S will not be coming to OHIO because he FAILED to do what is required .....well my day just got a lot brighter ...i hope it does not change this is a big mental boost for the state

[rsxsims]

02:10 PM on 01/13/2012

failure?? are you talking about obama?? hes been the one in the white house the last 3 years, and it seems theres economic failure all around. these other fellows are just running for office, obama is the failure in office...

[They Call Me Mr Snark]

01:22 PM on 01/13/2012

These are the most basic things they can't get right. The Republican_Party_of_Fools.

[marcuswatson1]

01:15 PM on 01/13/2012

All the rest can drop out Paul can handle this by himself

[Ketan Pattani]

12:30 PM on 01/13/2012

And they called Ron Paul "unelectable". He is the only really Electable candidate. And he is doing it for the people and standing up to the Media, Military Industrial Complex & Federal Reserve.

[blackraisin]

01:44 PM on 01/13/2012

He's the only non-Romney candidate with a chance of the nomination.

[ladydi58]

11:23 AM on 01/13/2012

What a pathetic group of candidates for the Republican party. Willard Mitt Romney gets the nomination because there were no really serious candidates running for the GOP. It is sad that the GOP had no viable candidates to run against Romney. So Romney basically gets the nomination by default. If Mitch Daniels or any other member of the GOP had run for President, Romeny would have lost the nomination once again.

[woodsjs]

11:07 AM on 01/13/2012

Seems to me those that can't get on the ballot are quite simply "unelectable"

[tlgpa]

10:59 AM on 01/13/2012

This is just proof that Newt was not seriously running for president. He was on a book tour. Campaigning for the GOP nomination as a ruse to sell books.
Then he got some attention because the other paper tiger candidates were all kicked to the curb. Newt was caught with his pants down and unprepared to be a serious candidate.

[maninal2]

10:45 AM on 01/13/2012

We can add these failures to 30+ years of failed Republican economic and social policy that's decimated the world's economy

[They Call Me Mr Snark]

01:23 PM on 01/13/2012

F&F