The Best Sex-Scandal Haikus

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The entries in our sex-scandal haiku contest are pouring in. Here are a few of our favorites:

Sanford
Reader F.P.:

Appalachian Trail
Due West – Live Boldly – Head South
Argentina Daze

Ensign
Reader F.P., again:

Keep your friends close by,
Know no boundaries of love,
Daddy will fix it.

And reader S.S.:

Daddy’s Casino
Paid off my love chit to her.
Gift, not bribe, I claim.

Edwards
Reader A.T:

Should not have posed for
my weird videographer —
now my hair is mussed.

Duvall (here’s a quick refresher on him)
Reader D.W.:

OC GOP,
Eyepatch-wearing lobbyist,
Dripping sex and lies.

TPMmuckraker:

Sex boasts and eye-patch
Underwear rock. But beware
The Hot Mic, Hot Mike!

And finally, reader S.W. got creative, using a certain Christian house on Capitol Hill to tie a few scandals together:

C Street fruit basket.
Other’s wives and Argentines.
Coburn as your Doc.

Late Update: And an all-purpose entry from reader D.B.:

If loving you’s wrong
Then I don’t want to be right.
But I must be right.

Late Late Update, 11/30/09: We got so many good ones, we had to post a few more…

Reader B.T. on Sanford:

Incoherently
Rambling on about my love.
Put a sock in it.

Reader C.L. on Ensign:

In the casino
Of life, I bet on you, and
My parents paid out.

Reader E.S. on Larry Craig:

Between flights, furtive,
The heart reduced to Morse code —
Feet tap in stalls.

Reader M.M. on David Vitter:

Spank me, dear. Spank me.
Afix my diaper with pins.
Money you shall have.

Reader JK on Tom Coburn’s role in the Ensign scandal:

I’m a doctor or
Perhaps a Christian pastor
Don’t ask me to snitch!

Reader J.R. on C Street:

Landlord’s dilemma:
Rent to reckless Congressman
When God won’t co-sign.

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