{"id":7417,"date":"2012-07-17T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2012-07-17T00:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T04:55:02","slug":"mitt-romney-vp-rumors-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/07\/17\/mitt-romney-vp-rumors-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Running-Mate Rumblings (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A VEEP pick this early in the campaign would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/is-romney-about-to-pick-a-vp-doubtful\/2012\/07\/16\/gJQA9QDDpW_blog.html\">very unusual<\/a>.  Yet the media is packed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/16\/us\/politics\/pawlenty-looked-at-as-romney-running-mate.html\">rumors<\/a> saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal-a\/2012_07\/today_in_directed_veep_specula038600.php\">Romney&#8217;s VP announcement<\/a> is imminent. Gee &#8230; I wonder just who&#8217;s feeding those rumors.<\/p>\n<p>Running-Mate Rumblings (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rumor conveyed with a swoon:<br \/>\nRomney &#8216;s VEEP pick may come very soon.<br \/>\nMitt is desp&#8217;rate for eyes<br \/>\nOn NOT-Bain: No surprise<br \/>\nThat the news now is VEEP-gossip strewn.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney, on his post-February 1999 affairs:<\/p>\n<p>I did not have corporeal relations with that company, Bain Capital!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VEEP pick this early in the campaign would be very unusual. Yet the media is packed with rumors saying Romney&#8217;s VP announcement is imminent. Gee &#8230; I wonder just who&#8217;s feeding those rumors. Running-Mate Rumblings (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Here&#8217;s a rumor conveyed with a swoon: Romney &#8216;s VEEP pick may come very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,26,126,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[1978,2786,2764,275,1250,497,2023,1840,2024],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-media-satire","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-bain-capital","tag-campaign-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-media-humor","tag-mitt-romney","tag-news","tag-running-mates","tag-veepstakes","tag-vp-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417","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=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}