Elizabeth Dole

Elizabeth Dole

Get set again for Liddy Dole.
She’s back, to let the good times roll.
She’s entering another race,
Her hair and diction all in place.
(Her hair is even more precise
Than that of Condoleezza Rice.)
Her problem is that she’s been cast
As someone with a Beltway past.
Although she’s Carolina bred,
She left her home to get ahead.
And now they say her luggage tag
Says DC–on a carpetbag.
“But ahm from heah,” she’ll say to all.
She’ll say it in a Tarheel drawl.
The drawl alone should do the trick,
Unless she lays it on too thick–
Unless the voters say, in candor,
“We simply cannot understand her.”

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Get set again for Liddy Dole.
She’s back, to let the good times roll.
She’s entering another race,
Her hair and diction all in place.
(Her hair is even more precise
Than that of Condoleezza Rice.)
Her problem is that she’s been cast
As someone with a Beltway past.
Although she’s Carolina bred,
She left her home to get ahead.
And now they say her luggage tag
Says DC–on a carpetbag.
“But ahm from heah,” she’ll say to all.
She’ll say it in a Tarheel drawl.
The drawl alone should do the trick,
Unless she lays it on too thick–
Unless the voters say, in candor,
“We simply cannot understand her.”

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