{"id":5679,"date":"2011-10-12T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2011-10-12T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:23:50","slug":"republican-debate-light-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/10\/12\/republican-debate-light-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight 4-Liners For The Republican Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for some more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/11\/george-bush-james-carter-humor\/\">political clerihews &#8212; whimsically biographical four-line poems, described more fully here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written one for each of the would-be presidents who appeared at last night&#8217;s Republican debate:<\/p>\n<p>Mass. Governor Mitt,<br \/>\nA job cutting hit.<br \/>\nHe flips and he flops,<br \/>\nAs positions he swaps.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Herman &#8220;9-9-9&#8221; Cain:<br \/>\n(Romney hopes he&#8217;ll wane)<br \/>\nThough many think he rocks,<br \/>\nHe belongs on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>James Richard Perry:<br \/>\nIs he bright? Not very.<br \/>\nA lousy debater&#8212;<br \/>\nCalled Bernanke a traitor.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Unhinged Michele<br \/>\nIs sinking pell-mell.<br \/>\nEven crazier than Palin&#8212;<br \/>\nJust what is she inhalin&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker Newt,<br \/>\nA pompous beaut.<br \/>\nPurports to be intellectual,<br \/>\nAt selling books effectual.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Rick Santorum<br \/>\nSeems lost in this forum.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s none too calm<br \/>\nOver his Google Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian Ron Paul<br \/>\nIs having a ball.<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t stand a chance.<br \/>\nBut enjoys the dance.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Jon Huntsman jokes<br \/>\nBut can not coax<br \/>\nAny support for his reign.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s way too sane.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for some more political clerihews &#8212; whimsically biographical four-line poems, described more fully here. I&#8217;ve written one for each of the would-be presidents who appeared at last night&#8217;s Republican debate: Mass. Governor Mitt, A job cutting hit. He flips and he flops, As positions he swaps. ***** Herman &#8220;9-9-9&#8221; Cain: (Romney hopes he&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,124,21,20,1616,1607,183,126,519,47,1501,6,7,3,9,635,1221,1565,17],"tags":[192,1503,194,2901,2900,1283,1250,729,347,1613,702,2845,2877,2898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679"}],"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=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5696,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}