This country needs a businessman in the WH to work with business and help the economy.
By that logic, Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, Lee Iacoca, and ten thousand other successful businessmen are worthy presidential material.
Citizen taxpayers are not employees and the U.S. government is not a business; it should not be in the business of being a business.
An exec businessman like Romney does what he does by negotiating and strategic manipulation of resources, including the human resource of employees, in order to make the business function more efficiently and hence more profitably. The goal is to achieve the highest output/profit with the least costly use of resources in order to benefit the business.
Think long and hard before you wish for "leaner" "more efficient" government, because all it really means is that that government will aim for achieving the same or more regulation, repression and taxation using fewer resources to accomplish it. A businessman will tell you true that a leaner business is in no way connected to less business. American doesn't need leaner government, it needs less government.
While one of the skills of a leader is to negotiate, negotiating is entirely separate from leading. Romney, with his businessman's model, is all too eager to negotiate for Republicans on Democrat terms. THAT is not leading; that is sacrificing conservative principle on the altar of business-minded "pragmatism."
Romney has stated that he believes "moderate" politicians from both sides of the aisle are what America needs for "leadership." I think a pretty good argument can be made that the concept of "moderate leadership" is an oxymoron.
Enslavement awaits those who support applying a business model to government. Businesses are the engines of our creative energy and productivity and belong in an environment of freedom and self-determination. Government is our servant and belongs in the servants' quarters.