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Romney Brothers Dish On Dad

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Romney Brothers Dish On Dad

 

By: Jose Antonio Vargas

Washington Post

Saturday, Jun 09, 2007

 

"Tagg Romney, 37, loves the Sox and has a thing for Billy Joel. Matt Romney, 35, always tunes in to 'Saturday Night Live,' and Josh Romney, 31, likes to surf and water-ski. Ben Romney, 29, hesitates to call his dog, Kingsley, a half yorkie and half poodle, 'a yorkie-poo.' And Craig Romney, 26, a Tom Brady look-alike, has 337 friends on MySpace and cites his dad, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as his heroes.

 

"Wholesome does not really begin to describe the five adult children of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who for the past few weeks have been sharing such details on Five Brothers, their blog and the most popular feature on the former Massachusetts governor's campaign Web site."

 

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"Such carping does not seem to faze the Romneys. 'It's a cynical world we live in, and my brothers are just being ourselves,' says Tagg, sitting at campaign headquarters at this city's North End, where he keeps an office. Adds Matt: 'Our goal is for people to get to know our dad a little more differently than they might in a 30-second TV spot. To get to know him through his family. So everyone's blogging.'"

 

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"Five Brothers was launched on April 12, and the Romneys post entries, load photos and videos several times a week. The blog is edited by the campaign communications staff, and comments and questions are allowed, though answers are not guaranteed."

 

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"Mostly, you get to know more about the Romneys with every subsequent posting:

 

"Everyone in the family - Mitt, Ann and their five boys - graduated from Brigham Young University. All sons are married; all but one of them have children. Romney, whose 10 grandchildren call him 'Papa,' does not have much of a sense of humor.

 

"'The problem is that he thinks he's pretty funny and may try to break out some of his "Mitt humor" as the brothers call it,' wrote Tagg before his dad's appearance on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.'

 

"After U.S. News and World Report compared Josh to the young actor Ashton Kutcher, the brothers exchanged e-mails and came up with famous look-alikes for each other. On a blog entry titled 'Separated At Birth,' Josh's photo was next to Kutcher's, Matt's was next to the television journalist Bob Woodruff's and Tagg's was next to Booger's, the nose-picking, smart-mouthed pothead character in 'Revenge of the Nerds.'

 

"On Mother's Day, the family's million-dollar manse in Belmont, Mass., about 20 minutes from Boston, was filled with lilacs, Ann's favorite. The flowers are an annual tradition."

 

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"On the blog's most popular entry, Josh asked readers to name the family's newly purchased used RV, which he will be driving to the 99 counties in Iowa. Suggestions poured in, some funny, not all of them supportive."

 

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"The brothers settled on 'The Mitt Mobile: A Five Brothers' Bus.'

 

"'I can't believe we didn't think of that one growing up. We actually nicknamed the car my dad used to drive the "gray grunt,"' Josh wrote. 'It was an old silver Chevy Caprice Classic that was full of dings and dents, a true lemon that he drove for years. I have Tagg searching for a picture right now.'"...

 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802781.html

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