Romney's Courtship

The Boston Herald reported yesterday on this recent website post by Mitt Romney on his wife Ann (which is simply excerpts from a speech back in November). The Herald summarizes some of the highlights which it calls "Way too much information":

[Romney] confides that [Ann] nearly was stolen away from him by lusting Brigham Young University studs while Romney was away on a Mormon missionary stay in France. But love prevailed and Mitt proposed. The couple has been married for 38 years. Here are Romney’s own words about their love, from the site: "Ann is an angel. She’s a hot angel, but she’s an angel nonetheless"

Seems like a case of the Herald turning the innocuous into the sensational, though anyone who might have attended Brigham Young University or served a mission probably gets a kick out of it.

Boston Herald Coverage

The Boston Herald ran several articles on Mitt Romney today:

• The paper reported that the Conservative PAC Rightmarch.com is accusing Romney of "flip-flopping" on his abortion stance while Governor of Massachusetts. By ordering Catholic hospitals in 2005 to make emergency contraceptives available over the advice of his top public health adviser, the group claims Romney "flip-flopped" because months earlier he had tried block legislation legalizing the emergency contraceptive RU-486 (the "morning after" abortion pill).
  

• It accused Romney of playing partisan politics during his last few weeks in office. The paper claims that Romney rejected a host of Democratic spending measure while allowing the funding of several similar Republican sponsored projects "slide through."
  

• The paper claims that Romney pulled strings from Israel in order to organize a Massachusetts State House meeting that considered whether the state should pull pension funds from companies that engage in business with Iran. The article insinuates that the request to convene the meeting was a self-serving attempt by Romney to bolster the five-point plan he had just laid out in a speech at a security conference in Herzliya.