{"id":3417,"date":"2010-07-12T00:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T04:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2010-07-13T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:54:00","slug":"david-vitter-chet-traylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/07\/12\/david-vitter-chet-traylor\/","title":{"rendered":"David Vitter’s Traylor Travails"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, Senator David Vitter of Louisiana has survived several scandals<\/a> ranging from soliciting a prostitute from the “D.C. Madam,” to keeping a “women’s issues” aide (Brent Furer) on staff who allegedly held his girlfriend hostage at knifepoint.<\/p>\n

But now he’s confronting a brand new challenge — a last minute, unexpected primary fight<\/a> launched by retired Judge Chet Traylor.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n

David Vitter’s Traylor Travails
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

The scandal-scarred Senator Vitter
\nGot struck with a last minute hitter:
\nA primary fight
\nFrom the GOP’s right.
\nNow he’s bitter. I read it on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Chet Traylor has pulled off this filing,
\nAnd bus’nesses find him beguiling—
\nFormer judge who’s a fan
\nOf the sodomy ban.
\nAnd that’s why Dave Vitter ain’t smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So far, Senator David Vitter of Louisiana has survived several scandals ranging from soliciting a prostitute from the “D.C. Madam,” to keeping a “women’s issues” aide (Brent Furer) on staff who allegedly held his girlfriend hostage at knifepoint. But now he’s confronting a brand new challenge — a last minute, unexpected primary fight launched by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1201,21,20,6,9,12],"tags":[1356,2876,194,511,1357],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-david-vitter","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-republicans","category-senate","tag-chet-traylor","tag-david-vitter","tag-election-humor","tag-louisiana","tag-republican-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}