Alpha-Political Verse (Election 2012)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
A is for abortions, which Mitt Romney vows to ban.
\nB is for the Birthers. Gov’nor Romney’s quite the fan.<\/p>\n
C’s for the contempt Mitt feels for folks who aren’t rich.
\nD is for a sham debate — Mitt’s pseudo-moderate switch.<\/p>\n
E’s evolving policies Mitt seem to change each day.
\nF is for those pesky facts. For Mitt they don’t hold sway.<\/p>\n
G’s for global warming. Mitt no longer thinks it’s real.
\nH is homophobia. Gay marriage he’d repeal.<\/p>\n
I’s for immigration. Self-deporting! What a plan!
\nJ’s for rightwing judges. Justice Roberts is Mitt’s man.<\/p>\n
K is for the Koch Bros. Mr. Romney’s in their debt.
\nL’s for all the lies Mitt tells. The truth to Mitt’s a threat.<\/p>\n
M’s Medicare and Medicaid. Mitt screws the old and poor.
\nN’s for Romney’s negative campaign, fact-challenged to its core.<\/p>\n
O’s for Mitt’s Olympics and the bailout Mitt secured.
\nP is for Paul Ryan’s plan. Mitt’s keeping it obscured.<\/p>\n
Q’s for follow-up questions. Journos find them such a bore.
\nR’s for regulations. Mitt is anti … also for. <\/p>\n
S is Social Security — Mitt pretends he wants to save.
\nT is tax cuts for the rich, which Romney donors crave.<\/p>\n
U’s the unemployment that Mitt Romney helped create.
\nV is all those varmints Romney killed … and maybe ate.<\/p>\n
W’s for lots of foreign wars. Mitt’s spoiling for a fight.
\nX is for your ballot mark. Be sure to do it right.<\/p>\n
Y\u2019s for \u201cYes, we can\u201d make sure the President prevails.
\nAnd Z’s for right-wing zealots. I look forward to their wails.<\/p>\n
(You can find my previous alpha-political verse here<\/a>, Alpha-Political Verse (Election 2012) By Madeleine Begun Kane A is for abortions, which Mitt Romney vows to ban. B is for the Birthers. Gov’nor Romney’s quite the fan. C’s for the contempt Mitt feels for folks who aren’t rich. D is for a sham debate — Mitt’s pseudo-moderate switch. E’s evolving policies Mitt seem to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,95,1358,72,21,114,62,20,10,1608,126,719,154,6,7,3,9,13,45,17,69],"tags":[2823,2110,2792,811,2786,2802,2764,2846,2780,1943,619,504,1345,1090,2895,2107,1418,1250,2108,2106,1419,377,1360,2109,374,1680,2784],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-rights","category-barack-obama","category-birther-humor","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-fiscal-policy","category-global-warming","category-gop-humor","category-judiciary","category-medicare-humor","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-national-security-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-supreme-court","category-tax-budget-humor","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-abortion-rights","tag-ballots","tag-barack-obama","tag-birthers","tag-campaign-humor","tag-debate-humor","tag-election-satire","tag-gay-rights","tag-global-warming","tag-homophobes","tag-immigration-humor","tag-journalists","tag-judiciary-satire","tag-justice-john-roberts","tag-koch-brothers","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-mitt-romney","tag-regulations","tag-self-deportation","tag-social-security","tag-supreme-court-humor","tag-tax-cuts","tag-unemployment","tag-war","tag-war-on-voting","tag-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","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=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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