I’m sorry, but I wrote this for some reason and had to share it.
Last night, the GOP came to DC
to choose a brand-new chairman: who’d it be?
There’s Steele, there’s Katon Dawson, and there’s Saul
There’s Blackwell, there’s Mike Duncan — and that’s all.
(Oh, wait, no, there’s Chip Saltsman. “Huh? Who’s he?”
The one whose campaign bombed from that CD…)
Committee members packed in the hotel
And all received their ballots, time would tell
Exactly who the victor soon would be
Who’d win the prize to head the RNC
One ballot passed: Mike Duncan was ahead
But his low margin foreshadowed the red
A second ballot cast, Steele earned a tie!
‘Twould not be long ’til Mike would say goodbye…
Another ballot cast, and he dropped out
If not, he’d be defeated in a rout
A fourth was cast and Dawson surged ahead!
So Blackwell dropped out, raised his hand and said:
“The old party of Lincoln we must be
If we are to revive the GOP!
So Michael Steele is who I do endorse
To guide us on this just and righteous course!”
The crowd erupted in a deaf’ning roar
And Michael Steele reclaimed the lead once more!
Anuzis finally backed out, at long last
So that the final ballot could be cast.
The tension rose, the pressure was unreal –
And then results came in: it’s Chairman Steele!
So after all six ballots, all six fights
K. Dawson lost ’cause of a club for whites
Anuzis lost ’cause he was just plain bad
And Blackwell by the so-cons had been had
Mike Duncan never really had a chance
And Steele was doing quite a happy dance…
January 31st, 2009 at 5:42 am
A+
January 31st, 2009 at 5:51 am
If journalism doesn’t work out for you ……….
January 31st, 2009 at 7:00 am
If you lose your day job, you can always run for National Poet! Good one.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:57 am
Hmm…
Maybe it’s time to pull the plug on your sleep-deprivation experiment.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:08 am
I was very impressed with Steele’s win yesterday and in him I saw the leadership, charisma and ambition of a man who has the potential to become the first Republican African-American President of the United States.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:07 am
Maybe someday JA Pruce, but I for one am not ready to jump the gun and go that far. However, I would not mind Mr. Steele becoming America’s first African American President. Ethnically, Mr. Obama is half American and half African, but it is a bit of a stretch to say Mr. Obama is the first African American President. Haha.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:12 am
I refuse to use the term “African-American.” I’m trying to purge it from my vocabulary.
I don’t see how Steele ever has an opening to run for the presidency.
The most plausible pathway is that he does an amazing job as RNC chair, leaves in January 2011, does something high-profile in the party — but what? And then gets tapped as VP in 2012. Then, the Republican wins and Steele is the next nominee.
That is one difficult, perfect-storm-style path.
I don’t see him ever being president.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
Don’t quit your day job Alex! BTW, isn’t a poem supposed to have a cadence to it?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:19 pm
#8,
Not really. Some have very subtle cadences. Some have none at all.
Try this one by Leigh Hunt:
It had little or no cadence to it, but it does rhyme.
Here is one by Whitman:
Good luck in finding any cadence in that. It doesn’t even rhyme, yet it is unmistakeably a poem.
Alex, you did good.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I wrote this in iambic pentameter…
January 31st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
LOLOLOL
January 31st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
You’re right, but I don’t really care for them to be considered poetry.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
“I’m sorry,”
You should be.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:46 pm
This is pretty impressive. Composing in iambic pentameter is pretty freakin’ difficult.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
“Good luck in finding any cadence in that. It doesn’t even rhyme, yet it is unmistakeably a poem.”
That might elicit some disagreement. It’s not even blank verse.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I’m not a big politico, so I don’t even recognize half the names you mentioned (my fault for not paying enough attention to Washington), but the poem amused me.