{"id":6303,"date":"2012-01-26T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2012-01-26T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:11:34","slug":"newt-gingrich-randy-duke-cunningham-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/01\/26\/newt-gingrich-randy-duke-cunningham-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt&#8217;s Endorsement Blues (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0112\/72000.html\">powers-that-be on the right hitting Gingrich hard<\/a>, he&#8217;s surely in the market for endorsements. But I suspect Newt could do without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/government\/thehall\/article_d9fc4722-4853-11e1-92b1-0019bb2963f4.html\">imprisoned, former Rep. Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham&#8217;s stamp of approval: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cunningham tells Gingrich in an electronic message he says he sent to the candidate last month that his fellow prisoners, and their families, support Gingrich:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Newt, a voice out of the past. Down but not out and still fighting. First I do not want anything from you but have been watching the debates. I have 80% of inmates that would vote for you. They might not be able to but their extended families will.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Newt&#8217;s Endorsement Blues (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Newt Gingrich, endorsed by a Duke:<br \/>\nFrom Duke Cunningham &#8212; praise not rebuke.<br \/>\nThe imprisoned ex-Rep<br \/>\nEndorsed Newt with great pep&#8212;<br \/>\nOne old colleague Newt doesn&#8217;t make puke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the powers-that-be on the right hitting Gingrich hard, he&#8217;s surely in the market for endorsements. But I suspect Newt could do without imprisoned, former Rep. Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham&#8217;s stamp of approval: Cunningham tells Gingrich in an electronic message he says he sent to the candidate last month that his fellow prisoners, and their families, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,20,519,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,2764,1673,729,1793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303"}],"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=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}