[Vision2020] "On Not Leaving the Field" (Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet)

[Tom Hansen]

"On Not Leaving the Field"
By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

Right-wingers who want to be heard
Note Newt's place is solidly third.
But if right-wing votes were combined,
The front-runner might fall behind.
So they say to Newt, "Won't you go?"
And Newt, being Newt, answers no.

Newt's ideological kin
Are dreading a moderate's win.
They argue that it would advance
The cause if Newt gave Rick a chance
To face Mitt not in a duet.
And Newt, being Newt, still says nyet.

"When England was under the blitz,
Did Churchill say, 'Let's call it quits'?"
Says Newt. "That is not what you see
>From statesmen like Churchill and me."
"Oh, please, just this once, Newt," they say,
And Newt, being Newt, says, "No way."

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown