I Finished Reading Hugh Hewitt’s Interview of Mitt Romney Just in Time …..

….. because, by the end, my computer had expanded to twice its normal size from all the powderpuff questions.

Okay, now that the laptop has calmed down, here’s a quick interview summary — Hewitt didn’t just throw softballs, he threw slo-pitch softballs:

• “Mike Huckabee’s the flavor of the month. He surged up in Iowa. What are the differences between you and Governor Huckabee?”
• “You spent a lot of time in Iowa. Does that movement in his (Huckabee’s) numbers concern you much?
• “Rudy Giuliani today was attacking the health plan you helped put into place in Massachusetts, saying that you have abandoned the idea of doing mandates, and I’m quoting now, “I think he realized he made a mistake,” and he was referring to you. What’s your assessment of his assessment of your plan, Governor?”

(allows Romney to answer without even addressing mandates)

Those were the “tough” questions.

The rest were gimmes about war funding, the department of Defense, Robert Gates, Robert Redford, and Chicago’s Olympics bid. Nothing about abortion in Commonwealth Care, employer and citizen penalties for not signing on to Commonwealth Care, gay marriage acquiescence, Big Dig business-as-usual, etc., etc., etc.

Add Hugh Hewitt to the list of those letting Mitt Romney skate past the legitimate, specific items raised by Gregg Jackson (here and here). Jackson noted yesterday that Romney refuses to come onto his home state’s Pundit Review Radio, apparently to avoid answering non-softball questions.

Much more of this, and “Romnian” is going to enter the lexicon almost as quickly as “Clintonian” did in the early 1990s.

Original Hewitt design, sans “Mitt,” courtesy of Weapons of Mass Discussion.