Last night I caught up with Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney before he caught the shuttle back to Boston to attend to the terror scare there (and to reassure people that Boston is safe; one of his aides suggested he would have taken in the Celtics game had he gotten back in time). (He’s home for the duration of the inaugural festivities for that reason.) Saw him a little amidst his Massachusetts fans and then among a more intimate group. He’s got that spark—the connecting charm that comes so in handy for pols. Have been hearing more and more good things about him of late. Before I go to far here, though: He’s not perfect—one problem looms large (what’s your abortion position, governor?), but I think he is one to watch. (There’s also the Mormon factor, which I think might be less of an impediment that George Will thinks, but we’ll see.) Somebody whose fighting for a lot of things that are important to a core of us…