Separated at birth?
If Evan Bayh and Mitt Romney face off in the ’08 presidential election, voters will get some eerie parallelism. Both men have fathers who tried and failed to become president. Both say they're capable of uniting Democrats and Republicans. And both would be “anti-” candidates — Bayh to Hillary Clinton, and Romney to John McCain, whose mercurial personality and deviations from Republican orthodoxy make him Romney’s antithesis.
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- Chump 'change'
If and when Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign dies, our former governor has his excuse picked out.
- Drive free or die
Reporter Mark Leibovich offered a parenthetical aside on a brush with former Massachusetts governor and would-be president Mitt Romney’s security detail.
- Seven for seven
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
- Presidential toteboard: To run, or not to run
In virtually every election cycle, there is a group of candidates who linger on the sidelines, unable to decide whether to enter the race.
- Guinea pigs
The stakes are clear: if the system works well in Massachusetts, odds are that the nation will follow. If it fails here, this approach dies.
- Romney's first draft
If a few recent incidents are any indication, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, widely viewed as a likely Republican presidential hopeful in 2008, is quite concerned about the hometown press.
- Romney’s greatest gaffes — so far
All of a sudden, Massachusetts is America’s poster child for health-care reform — and nobody’s happier about that than Governor Mitt Romney, who, as a result, has become a popular dark-horse pick for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
- The passion of the candidate
Pity Mitt Romney, the object of religious persecution, forced to make a public speech confronting the antagonistic forces that have kept his candidacy down by attacking his faith.
- The 10th Annual Muzzle Awards
Mitt Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it will help him become president.
- King said George Romney didn't march
Romney was not satisfied with what George Romney actually did. He inflated it, placing his father into the iconic position of marching alongside the civil rights leader.
- The rats in Romney’s corner
Mitt Romney’s powerhouse first-quarter fundraising numbers — he reports to have taken in more than $20 million — got him all kinds of press attention.
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