Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...untested Romney, in taking on a figure who is lodged so firmly in Massachusetts iconography, is simply out of his league...
...must confess to being partial to both millionaire venture capitalists (and others who feed from the investment banking trough) and liberal scions of political dynasties. Thus have the two candidates for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 and his Republican rival, W. Mitt Romney, been characterized...
...been obscenely easy to caricature both men. Romney with his pedigree, family dog McKenzie and attractive if vacuous wife ("You've got to incent [sic] people to behave in a more appropriate pattern to break the cycle of really inappropriate...and life is so precious you just don't want to cheat these children out of their potential...") provides much fodder for commentators...
Kennedy, too, has been a fertile source of material for commentators who, ignoring his record, have taken aim at his personal foibles. Romney and his handlers have cleverly used Kennedy's girth as representative of a bloated, spent bureaucracy...
...Kennedy-Romney match-up has all the elements of an Oedipal drama--Clinton-Bush redux, only writ small and with party affiliation reversed...