{"id":8537,"date":"2012-11-14T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2012-11-14T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T00:56:02","slug":"romney-blames-obama-gifts-for-loss-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/11\/14\/romney-blames-obama-gifts-for-loss-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Mitt &#8220;Sore Loser&#8221; Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt &#8220;Sore Loser&#8221; Romney doesn&#8217;t use the word &#8220;bribes&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-romney-election-campaign-donors-20121114,0,5622330.story\">rationalizing his loss<\/a> to his <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/14\/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters\/\">donors,<\/a> but he sure comes mighty close:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A week after losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big \u201cgifts\u201d that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the \u201cold playbook\u201d of wooing specific interest groups \u2014 \u201cespecially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people,\u201d Mr. Romney explained \u2014 with targeted gifts and initiatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I understand Romney correctly, winning votes because of policies that benefit the middle class, minorities, and the poor is bad.  But winning votes and tons of donor cash because of policies that will make rich people even richer is just fine and dandy.  So glad we cleared that up.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Mitt &#8220;Sore Loser&#8221; Romney<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney is sore-loser cross,<br \/>\nBlaming targeted &#8220;gifts&#8221; for his loss.<br \/>\nMitt in essence describes<br \/>\nGood programs as bribes<br \/>\nTo Blacks, Youths, Hispanics. What dross!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt &#8220;Sore Loser&#8221; Romney doesn&#8217;t use the word &#8220;bribes&#8221; in rationalizing his loss to his donors, but he sure comes mighty close: A week after losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big \u201cgifts\u201d that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,21,20,175,126,1481,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2180,2792,1756,2774,1923,2764,935,2819,2176,1250,2891,2164,240,2178,2163,702,2179,2761,2177],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-joe-biden","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-paul-ryan","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-african-americans","tag-barack-obama","tag-black-people","tag-blame-game","tag-election-2012","tag-election-satire","tag-hispanics","tag-joe-biden","tag-minorities","tag-mitt-romney","tag-paul-ryan","tag-policy-humor","tag-presidential-election","tag-republican-donors","tag-republican-policies","tag-republicans-humor","tag-sore-losers","tag-white-house","tag-youth-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}