I don’t buy it. Nobody drafted Mitt, he wound up at that level due to his own desires and ambitions.
Yes, he was lackluster as a candidate, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t want to be President, it just means that he sucked at campaigning.
Well, we disagree.
I see Romney the way I saw Fred Thompson. For whatever reason (pressure from somewhere - probably their wives) they ran but didn’t want to - their heart wasn’t in it.
Romney did a pretty extreme reversal before and after getting the GOP nomination. He was pretty aggressive to get the GOP nomination but seemed disinterested as a POTUS candidate.