{"id":6317,"date":"2012-01-30T17:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2012-01-30T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:57:59","slug":"brokered-convention-mitt-newt-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/01\/30\/brokered-convention-mitt-newt-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Brokered Convention Blues (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Republicans are worried they’ll be saddled with a brokered convention.<\/a> And Newt Gingrich’s statement<\/a> is upping their anxiety:<\/p>\n

With just one full day of campaigning left until the Florida primary and polls indicating that Mitt Romney has substantially widened his lead in the Sunshine State, Newt Gingrich told reporters Sunday he is prepared to fight out the Republican presidential nomination all the way to a brokered convention.<\/p>\n

“We have no evidence yet that Romney anywhere is coming close to getting a majority and I think when you take all the non-Romney votes, it’s very likely that at the convention there will be a non-Romney majority and maybe a very substantial one. My job is to convert that into a Gingrich majority,” Gingrich said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brokered Convention Blues (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

The thought of a brokered convention
\nIs creating Republican tension:
\nWill Mitt’s delegate count
\nSufficiently mount
\nIf Newt nixes a prez run suspension?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Republicans are worried they’ll be saddled with a brokered convention. And Newt Gingrich’s statement is upping their anxiety: With just one full day of campaigning left until the Florida primary and polls indicating that Mitt Romney has substantially widened his lead in the Sunshine State, Newt Gingrich told reporters Sunday he is prepared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,126,519,6,7,3,9],"tags":[1794,2786,2764,1250,729,354,702],"class_list":["post-6317","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-republicans","tag-brokered-convention","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-republicans-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","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=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}