THE LUNATIC FRINGE ON TOP

WATCHING the Republican candidates for president make bloody fools of themselves is the most amusing show in the world right now, but we’ll be laughing out of another side of our mouths if one of them becomes our next president, as that clown did in 2000.  Still, never let it be said that a good opportunity for satire slipped right by us .  .  .  .

The (LUNATIC) Fringe on Top  (The Surrey with the Fringe on Top)

(Prologue) The Right have set a novel precedent

They’re sending in the clowns for president

We shake our heads and ponder what the hell they’re thinking–

Wonder where that Grand Old Party went?

Gingrich, Bachman, Christy and Perry

Sit up there on the stage makin’ merry–

We think things have got awful scary

With the (lunatic) fringe on top!

Each candidate is more nuts than the last one

Each of ‘em hopes they can pull off a fast one

If there’s a winner, we sure can’t forecast one

With the (lunatic) fringe on top!

The moderate right is so depressed

The radicals are front and center

Democracy in action at its madcap best–

A race any wacko can enter!

They want our votes but I’ll have to decline mine

These folks are all like a race out of Heinlein

They’re making Bush look like young Albert Einstein

A demented crop–

They’re the runt of the litter

They’re the dregs of the coffee

They’re the bats in the belfry

They’re the  (lunatic) fri-iinge—

on the top!


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