Doggerel Campaigning: Tom Geoghegan

Hendrick Hertzberg pointed out these limericks from the "Tom Geoghegan for Congress" website, as aids to pronouncing his name.

There’s a place where corporate crooks are ragin’
Filled with people more slimy than Fagin
The name for this mess
Is the U.S. Congress
Which is why we need Candidate Geoghegan.

-Brian Cook

There once was a candidate Geoghegan
Whose name rhymed quite oddly with “pagan”
He battled the rich
And Blagojevich
Like Martians they fled from his raygun.

-Brian Beutler