{"id":6245,"date":"2012-01-23T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:49:41","slug":"establishment-republicans-newt-gingrich-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/01\/23\/establishment-republicans-newt-gingrich-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Republican Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich demolished Mitt in South Carolina. Newt&#8217;s surging in Florida. And <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/23\/romneys_national_lead_collapses.html\">Romney&#8217;s large national lead is collapsing.<\/a> Needless to say, the <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2012\/01\/23\/newt-gingrich-vs-the-establishment-south-carolina-sets-up-intra-gop-conflict\/\">Republican establishment is starting to panic:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To the extent Newt threatens the Establishment, it\u2019s because of his electability\u2013or lack thereof. The GOP\u2019s mandarins see Gingrich\u2019s 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, \u201cNewt means losing 45 states.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Republican Panic<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Republican powers-that-be<br \/>\nAre scared of a Newt-nominee:<br \/>\nNewt&#8217;s grandiose ways<br \/>\nCould trigger malaise,<br \/>\nAs voters to Democrats flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich demolished Mitt in South Carolina. Newt&#8217;s surging in Florida. And Romney&#8217;s large national lead is collapsing. Needless to say, the Republican establishment is starting to panic: To the extent Newt threatens the Establishment, it\u2019s because of his electability\u2013or lack thereof. The GOP\u2019s mandarins see Gingrich\u2019s nomination as a sure way to blow their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,126,519,6,7,3,90,9,1172,610],"tags":[192,194,2911,215,1250,729,1716,702,291,779,1246],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-polls","category-republicans","category-south-carolina-humor","category-voting-satire","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-florida","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-political-polls","tag-republicans-humor","tag-rnc","tag-south-carolina","tag-voting-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}