You are pushing an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
LOL!
Mitt Romney has probably wanted to be President since he father considered it, and failed. George Romney, Mitt's dad, couldn't be President because he wasn't a natural born citizen, having been born in Mexico. If you are unaware, he was an opponent and nasty critic of the conservative Barry Goldwater.
Mitt Romney is smart and he has money. Being President would be one-up on his old man, and Mitt wants it ever so much! Both he and his dad admired and were acquainted with Saul Alinsky. When I said he, Mitt Romney, is an admitted Progressive, it was factual.
Mitt ain't no conservative but that doesn't mean he won't go through the motions to appear as though listening and consulting with them. He will do anything because he wants to inhabit the White House, and like most men who've coveted the position, he will no doubt be highly ineffective once there.