"..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.