{"id":7950,"date":"2012-09-19T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2012-09-19T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T22:04:04","slug":"romneys-father-on-welfare-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/09\/19\/romneys-father-on-welfare-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Victimless Rhyme (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an amusing irony, in light of Mitt Romney’s 47 percent secret video<\/a>: Mitt Romney’s father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, was once “on relief.”<\/a><\/p>\n

In this video, cut from a 1962 Romney for Governor informercial, Lenore Romney talks about why her husband would be a good Governor of Michigan. Interestingly, Lenore Romney sounds very similar to how Ann Romney described Mitt Romney in her convention speech last week \u2014 though Lenore also describes George as \u201ca refugee from Mexico. He was on relief – welfare relief – for the first years of his life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Victimless Rhyme (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Romney’s father was once “on relief.”
\n47 percenter — good grief!
\nDoes that mean that Mitt’s dad
\nWould not vote for his lad?
\nWas he Michigan’s Victim in Chief?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an amusing irony, in light of Mitt Romney’s 47 percent secret video: Mitt Romney’s father, former Michigan Governor George Romney, was once “on relief.” In this video, cut from a 1962 Romney for Governor informercial, Lenore Romney talks about why her husband would be a good Governor of Michigan. Interestingly, Lenore Romney sounds very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,2089,20,126,6,7,3,9,2059],"tags":[2087,192,194,1558,2090,537,1601,1250,2088,2086,2091,2085,2083,1758],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-entitlements-humor","category-gop-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-welfare-law-humor","tag-47-percent","tag-campaign-satire","tag-election-humor","tag-entitlements","tag-george-romney","tag-income-tax","tag-michigan","tag-mitt-romney","tag-political-campaigns","tag-private-fundraiser","tag-relief","tag-secret-video","tag-victims","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}