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Limerick Ode To Republican Panic

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Newt Gingrich demolished Mitt in South Carolina. Newt’s surging in Florida. And Romney’s large national lead is collapsing. Needless to say, the Republican establishment is starting to panic:

To the extent Newt threatens the Establishment, it’s because of his electability–or lack thereof. The GOP’s mandarins see Gingrich’s nomination as a sure way to blow their chance of deposing Barack Obama. They see Gingrich as the political equivalent of a Fukushima nuclear plant worker, with polls showing him to be lethally irradiated by his negative approval ratings. Whereas Mitt Romney is running about even with Barack Obama in head-to-head polling, Newt loses by double-digit margins. Sure, those numbers could change if Gingrich beats Romney and wins the nomination, with all the accolades it entails. On the other hand, his grandiosity syndrome may kick in, as it has before, and render him a laughing stock. Hence the many Establishment Republicans now saying things like, “Newt means losing 45 states.”

And that brings me to my latest limerick:

Limerick Ode To Republican Panic
By Madeleine Begun Kane

The Republican powers-that-be
Are scared of a Newt-nominee:
Newt’s grandiose ways
Could trigger malaise,
As voters to Democrats flee.

Mitt Romney’s South Carolina Blues (Limerick)

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Beware The Wrath Of Newt (Limerick)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Subversive Limerick

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Mark Sanford, The Not-So-Frugal Traveler

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Public Figures Behaving Badly

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Waterloo Lies

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Dueling Scandals

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Ode to Mark “Sweet Talker” Sanford

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Mark Sanford’s Trail … Of Hypocrisy

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Mark Sanford — Lost? Or Losing It?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009