{"id":6812,"date":"2012-03-21T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2012-03-21T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:44:19","slug":"etch-a-sketch-romney-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/03\/21\/etch-a-sketch-romney-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The “Etch-a-Sketch” Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you represent a candidate who’s famed for his pandering opinion changes, it might be best to eliminate “Etch-a-Sketch”<\/a> from your vocabulary:<\/a> <\/p>\n

Instead of rejoicing in what looks to be the beginning of the end of the Republican presidential race, however, Romney and his team are on the defensive over an Etch-a-Sketch. Yes, an Etch-a-Sketch.<\/p>\n

Erik Fehrnstrom, one of Romney\u2019s top aides, made the unfortunate comparison between his candidate and the child\u2019s toy during a television interview on CNN on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,\u201d said Fehrnstrom. \u201cEverything changes. It\u2019s almost like an Etch-a-Sketch \u2013 you can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Limerick Ode To The “Etch-a-Sketch” Candidate
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Romney’s policy viewpoints are fleeting.
\nThey’re not helping him? Watch his retreating.
\nFirst he’s for, then agin,
\nAs his mouthpieces spin.
\nMitt needs Etch-a-Sketch-YouTube deleting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you represent a candidate who’s famed for his pandering opinion changes, it might be best to eliminate “Etch-a-Sketch” from your vocabulary: Instead of rejoicing in what looks to be the beginning of the end of the Republican presidential race, however, Romney and his team are on the defensive over an Etch-a-Sketch. Yes, an Etch-a-Sketch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,1614,2764,1885,1884,1250,1102,1883],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-campaign-humor","tag-cnn","tag-election-satire","tag-erik-fehrnstrom","tag-etch-a-sketch","tag-mitt-romney","tag-pandering","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","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=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6821,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}