Buzz Ballad: The Lonesome Debate of Mitt Romney

—apologies to Bob Dylan and “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”

Obama threw zingers to attack Mitt Romney
Trying to compensate for his lack of Teleprompter
In a mainstream-media townhall-debate format
With an audience stacked to be favorable to him
And all audience questions previously submitted
With commentators watching to inflate his successes
And minimize answers that Romney might offer

But you who rationalize deceit
And justify all spin
Are going down to a deserved defeat
For November Sixth we will win

Barack Obama grew up as a Leftist
In law school adopted Critical Race Theory
For twenty years sat and listened to a pastor
Who damned the America that gave him his fortune
And claims he never heard what that preacher uttered
He started political life with assistance
From a terrorist bomber who is unrepentant

But you who rationalize deceit
And justify all spin
Are going down to a deserved defeat
For November Sixth we will win

Romney like Obama grew up in some privilege
But starting adult life gave up his inheritance
So that he could earn for himself satisfaction
By making his own way when finding his fortune
He saved companies and he saved the jobs with them
And in doing so he amassed his own millions
Which Barack Obama attacks with class warfare
Romney understands that it’s the private sector
And not government jobs and not entitlements
That will bring the United States out of recession
If we are not fettered by too much regulation

But you who rationalize deceit
And justify all spin
Are going down to a deserved defeat
For November Sixth we will win

The moribund media determine the forum
In which candidates may debate, and decorum
Under which anyone challenging whom they favor
Will have disabilities ‘neath which they labor
So that they’ll be lucky to finish a sentence
In order to build up the incumbent’s competence
And paint he who challenges him as a devil
They know he can’t win if the playing field’s level
And so his record must at all costs be hidden
Ignoring the filthy stench of reeking midden
Demanding the while that Romney “give specifics”

Ah, but you who rationalize deceit
And justify all spin
Are going down to a deserved defeat
For November Sixth we will win