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.
His job was to block a conservative from getting the nomination.
“He was pretty aggressive to get the GOP nomination but seemed disinterested as a POTUS candidate.”
I think the difference was the opponents. When he was wrangling with conservatives in the primary, he was at his most passionate. When he faced Obama, he couldn’t get as worked up, because they did not disagree as fundamentally.