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Mitt Romney/Scott Brown Bakeoff (Margery Eagan Edition)

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 … Continue reading

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Tea Party Is Mad As A Hatter

The Tea Party, which is to political movements what plaid is to Bermuda shorts, has a Tea-bag trifecta underway in Utah. From Tuesday’s dead-tree New York Times: 3 Leading Mormon Politicians Feel Heat From Tea Party at Home in Utah … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In a Two-Daily Town (Hat Trick Edition)

Forget what the hardworking staff has said about the Boston Herald being a lively index to the Boston Globe. Tuesday’s editions of the local dailies are a tale of two cities. Exhibit A: Larry Summers Time BH: Summers praises Mass. … Continue reading

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RomneyFare®: Not So Good In NYT

Front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the jobs-based focus of once and future presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-Pretzel Logic), who undoubtedly wishes he’d been relegated to page A23. Nut graf: The message is well suited to Mr. Romney’s … Continue reading

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When A Society Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .

. . . it’s just plain sad. But that, apparently, is what’s happening in America these days. From our Mangled Phrases desk: In Saturday’s Boston Herald, Hillary Chabot reported that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is “under new fire from … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, And Cleavage

(Headline courtesy of our Search Engine Optimization desk) From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal: Tax Deal Is Shaping 2012 GOP Campaign WASHINGTON—The tax deal now before Congress has kicked off the first real debate of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, with … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney Laundering Money In Alabama?

From Sunday’s New York Times: The fact that Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is weighing a run for president in 2012, has an active political action committee in Alabama might seem puzzling. It is, after all, not a critical … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Dukakis/Romney Slapfight Edition)

Tuesday’s dead-tree Boston Herald ran a State House News Service story headlined, “The Duke dumps on Romney.” Subhed: Dukakis: ‘Lousy’ gov is ‘the biggest’ letdown The ex-gubernatorial slapfight kicked off with the Duke putting up his dukes, to wit: A fiery … Continue reading

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RomneyCare, ObamaCare, PatrickCare, BetterTakeCare

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal featured yet another  RomneyCarve op-ed (see earlier hits here) about “the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006.” Headline: The Massachusetts Health-Care ‘Train Wreck’ Subhead: The future of ObamaCare is unfolding here: … Continue reading

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Dear Diary, Love Mitt

Dear Diary, We got in the newspapers today! Look – the New York Times had our name in a headline (admittedly it was an Associated Press wire report, but the Times is the Times – right, Diary?): Romney Endorses Rubio … Continue reading

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