He may or may not have hugged anybody, but if he has, that person has never published an article arguing that the uplifting rhetoric of equality and integration should not be allowed to distract us from persistent material inequality.
Nor has Mitt Romney ever hugged a proponent of feminist jurisprudence. He has never sunk into the outstretched arms of anyone that wanted to question the gender of the "reasonable man" posited by "objective" legal standards. It is possible, though not likely, that Mitt Romney may have, in a social situation, shaken hands with a Critical Legal Scholar, who believed that the indeterminacy of language meant that there is really no "right" answer to a legal dispute. But it is almost inconceivable that he would have toussled the hair of such a person. Certainly not knowingly; he has more sense than that. Mitt Romney has never kissed a skeptic about the possibility of unlimited economic growth. He's never playfully wrestled with a radical pacifist. He has never sat in the lap of prison abolitionist. And he's never, ever, even once gone down, on someone that believes, as a philosophical matter, that animal sentience deserves legal protection (even Robert Nozick).
Can he be President now?