Scary people keep winning Republican primaries. For instance:<\/p>\n
* Christine O’Donnell in Delaware’s Senate race
\n* Carl Paladino in New York’s gubernatorial race
\n* Joe Miller in Alaska’s Senate race
\n* Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Senate race
\n* Sharron Angle in Nevada’s Senate race<\/p>\n
Yes, I know all about the conventional wisdom — that Democrats should be happy because these extremist Republicans can’t win general elections. But conventional wisdom can sometimes be rather unwise. After all, these candidates weren’t supposed to win the primaries either. Yet here we are.<\/p>\n
That brings me to my latest two-verse limerick:<\/p>\n
Radical Verse
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
The primaries made it quite clear
\nThat our nation could lose all that’s dear.
\nThe ballots are toted.
\nRepublicans voted
\nFor radicals. Dems, please don’t cheer.<\/p>\n
I’ve been hearing some “general” spin Scary people keep winning Republican primaries. For instance: * Christine O’Donnell in Delaware’s Senate race * Carl Paladino in New York’s gubernatorial race * Joe Miller in Alaska’s Senate race * Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Senate race * Sharron Angle in Nevada’s Senate race Yes, I know all about the conventional wisdom — that Democrats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,1182,792,156,154,6,7,3,1317,9,1119,610,69],"tags":[192,2885,2884,1401,194,1400,2880,1357,1341,1177],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-kentucky-humor","category-nevada-humor","category-new-york-politics","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rand-paul","category-republicans","category-tea-parties","category-voting-satire","category-wingnuts","tag-campaign-satire","tag-carl-paladino","tag-christine-odonnell","tag-conventional-wisdom","tag-election-humor","tag-joe-miller","tag-rand-paul","tag-republican-primary","tag-sharron-angle","tag-tea-party-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","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=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat these loons can’t November’s vote win.
\nThis assumption’s not sound.
\nWe’re in trouble profound.
\nWe don’t fight? They’ll be in<\/strong> … just like Flynn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"