Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan weighs in on the Romney/Brown rumble for bragging rights and media coverage.
Lede:
Scott Brown has barely been our senator a year. Yet he’s already out-coiffed, out-sculpted, out-politicked and yes, outsmarted our previous matinee idol, Mitt Romney.
Mitt’s second presidential run? Already it’s “Flip Flop, the Sequel,” as he painfully tries to squirm away from Romneycare.
Meanwhile, Brown maintains perfect political pitch. This week he pleased liberals by defending Planned Parenthood. He pleased conservatives with an impassioned argument against closing Guantanamo (see Wednesday’s Herald op-ed) .
What else? Best jokes and most hands shook at Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, better work ethic, better media stroking, better how-I-met-my-wife-tale, and etc.
(Oh, yeah – and those “chiseled” whatevers, yes Margery?)
Paging all Romneyites: Rebuttal?
Campaign Outsider 
Perhaps Brown maintains “perfect political pitch” because columnists like Eagan continue to cast a blind eye to HIS flip-flops. Before defending Planned Parenthood, he voted to zero out its funding. He favors the Massachusetts health-care reform but opposes the ACA. He flipped on DADT. And on and on and on, but you won’t read about it in the Herald.
Good points, Steve, also made by Joan Vennochi in her Thursday Globe column.
Yes. I read that column just AFTER replying here and I was impressed. Vennochi seems to be the only journalist pointing out the inconvenient truths of Brown’s record.