Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Exit Poetry (Updated)

Jon Sanders at the John Locke Foundation is a practitioner of the minimalist poetry commemorating the departure of political figures, dubbed the "bye-ku". He unleashed it mercilessly on my [former] candidate yesterday:


Fred Thompson's campaign,
Like the Law & Order theme,
Simply went "Clunk, clunk."


Fellow Locker Room denizen Paul Chesser's reply was even worse:


Sunken, hollow eyes
Vacant much like his campaign
Will he blame Jeri?


I expressed my dilemma this morning:


Since Bill Buckley said
"Vote rightwardmost viable"
and Fred's not it -- whom?

To which Paul agreed:


Mitt flips; McCain, ugh;
Big tax Huck; Rudy pro-choice
None of the above

The root of the problem seems to me:


"Conservatism",
for voters, has Gaussian
popularity


UPDATE: The Boston Phoenix (HT: Real Clear Politics) raised an interesting historical point: This may not be over yet. My link from the Locker Room:


Brokered convention
May resurrect the morbid
Fred-shade of Harding!


And as I'm reading A Team of Rivals, I might add that Lincoln was nominated under similar circumstances in 1860.

posted by Hal @ 12:03 PM

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