Word: goliaths
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EVERY SO OFTEN, timing, events and the allure of unclaimed power combine to create a Goliath in the United States Senate--a senator, usually chairman of an important committee, able to influence single-handedly the future of a whole series of legislative proposals. There are various strains of "influence" in Congress and this kind is not to be confused with the organizational, vote-corraling clout that Lyndon Johnson possessed as Majority Leader in the 1950s. It is, instead, the old bottleneck route to power. Certain members have a stranglehold on those committees through which pass the major issues...
...what if for the second year running (pun intended) Yale proved to be the dominant outfit, the Goliath to Harvard's slingless David. But so what. After all, they still go to Yale...
Harvard hung tough while losing to highly-touted Holy Cross and South Carolina, but the physical disparity between the hoopsters and Georgetown made David and Goliath seem like an even matchup. The Hoyas' shortest frontline player is 6 ft. 7 in. Craig Shelton...
...both counts the coverage in the primaries was but a warm-up for the general election. The public and the media were eager for heroes in the fall of 1976. Gerald Ford could not fill this role, but Jimmy Carter held some promise. Instead, the Goliath of the primaries turned out to be an imperfect mortal, subject to nervousness and occasional lapses of judgement. Furthermore, Carter decided to shift gears after the primaries. He concluded that the strategy which attracted sudden media and public attention--the slightly enigmatic new face, the anti-partisan running against orthodox Democratic dogma--while successful...
Sanford's point is that Nader needlessly either denies or tries to conceal such trivialities out of his obsession with protecting the myth of an unblemished David in mortal combat with a corrupt Goliath...