In 1994, Mitt Romney, then looking for his main chance to build Presidential cred, challenged Senator Ted Kennedy for his U.S. Senate seat. During an interview, Senator Kennedy held forth about the superiority of Democrats to Republicans--the standard "we Democratic politicians versus Republican politicians nonsense. When he stopped talking, the interviewer asked, "If that is so, why aren't you doing better?" Visibly gobsmacked, Ted Kennedy said nothing (a first?).