Some Former Backsliders Try to Please the Christian Right

deadline poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the March 19, 2007 edition of The Nation.

March 1, 2007

Although he mortified himself, it's true, By showing up at Falwell's Wack Job U, And says that every effort should be made To guarantee reversing Roe v. Wade, The Christian right's big mullahs make it plain They're still not comfortable with John McCain.

And Giuliani's heel is like Achilles'; Revolving fillies give the right the willies. His other heel is pretty much the same, Since bashing gays was never Rudy's game. But now he hates abortion. From the start, He was, he says, opposed--deep in his heart.

Mitt Romney's saying now he should have known A stem cell's just a human, not quite grown. Gay marriage, which he used to think was good, Is now the sort of awful thing that should Be banned by an amendment he'd get passed To rid us of this evil plague at last.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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