"..A recent example of this comes from the U.S. presidential campaign, where Republican Mitt Romney essentially turned tail and ran on the Iraq conflict. A questioner had asked him what he was going to do about Iraq, which – the questioner said – is "an unmitigated mess." Instead of defending his president and his party's policies in Iraq, Romney went for "nice" by instantly agreeing that Iraq was, indeed, a mess. " Mitt's a manager, a trimmer, a calculator. It works well in finding marginal differences in a spread sheet. He's a modern, financial man. He adapts to his times but isn't a maker of times, lacking vision and mission, save electing Mitt.