cassandracarolina just held a fun post contest with her post GOP Insanity Driving You Nuts? Chill Out with our Indigo Kalliope Political Limerick Challenge!! Check it to see to see your Kossacks at work.
I contributed, but found I couldn't stop thinking about it. There's only so much psychosis one can fit into five lines, so I expended my entry into the following multi-verse foray. I enjoyed writing it; hope you enjoy reading it.
The Song of Wrongs
In light of strange current events,
the prospect of satire presents,
which I hope will comport
with the norms of a court
and accepted rules of evidence.
Together we'll take up the question
of whether the right wing's suggestion
that blatant classicism
means patriotism
should cause, at the least, indigestion.
Republicans, down and exiled,
for Obama, a slander compiled:
"He's a mullah who's callin'
both Hitler and Stalin!
Plus he's foreign, thus should be reviled."
Jury note: I suggest misdirection,
and that, since the '08 election,
they just haven't seen fit
to come out and admit
that their real beef is with his complexion.
That said, I will give them some credit.
There's policies, too, they would edit.
Heath care for a child,
is blasphemous, wild!
as their savior, Ayn Rand, might have said it.
But, since each bravehearted partying tea-sipper,
each wannabe Reagan, each wee Gipper,
says "I'll get back your money
(and keep my projects, honey)"
He or she, you'll agree is a flop-flipper*.
Still, the right had momentum there, brother.
With the Democrats calling for mother.
Their guns, locked and loaded,
with power exploded
unfortunately, aimed at each other
The establishment's anticipation
trumped caution and consideration
that a prize so darn tempting
would cause some preempting
by nutjobs who seek nomination.
Michele Bachmann, at first had, the limelight,
then Perry the Texan (not too bright),
Cain dropped his pants
which gave Gingrich a chance
But Santorum's the one Romney must fight.
(Ron Paul, the eternal outlier,
still tries to sell his desire
to mass privatize
and pot legalize
so while you get screwed, you get higher.)
In every debate and each forum
They throw out all sense of decorum
each the other outdoing
with venomous spewing
till Joe Public says "just ignore 'em."
Obama, meanwhile, stands aloof.
A smart man, and there's the proof
It seems that he read
What Napoleon said:
"Don't ever interrupt your foe's goof."
So to sum up, the right tried to muster
all who could blather and bluster
But, friends in the jury
just review sound and fury
and you'll find its a fuck a la cluster.
*saw this term in another poem once. Anyone who can provide the reference, please do