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.
  

Touring Israel

Mitt Romney traveled to Israel today as part of a four-day tour of the country. Romney is the first announced 2008 presidential candidate in either party to visit Israel as a candidate. The trip is being sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).

On Tuesday, Romney is slated to speak at an annual Israeli security conference called the Herzliya Conference. He plans to return Thursday, but Hotline is reporting that he has private meetings scheduled with an impressive array of politicians and diplomats, including:

• Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
• Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres
• Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
• Mr. Meir Dagan, Director of the Mossad
• Avi Dichter, Minister of Public Security
• Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak
• Natan Sharansky
• Former Prime Minister and former Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• Dr. Salam Fayyad, former Palestinian Finance Minister