Actually, I don't think so. That was Bush's mistake, and I don't see Romney repeating it.
Mitt is probably going to be a lot more aggressive, a lot more involved, a lot more critical, caustic, and unforgiving of the sheer incompetence of the previous years than Bush ever was. Quite frankly, for his Presidency to have any chance of succeeding, he will have to be.
Of course, a lot of it will depend on the makeup of Congress after he is sworn in, but make no mistake, there will be a reckoning.
I hope you’re right. It’s true that one of Bush’s biggest mistakes was his failure to pursue any of Clinton’s misdeeds and mismanagement, which essentially only emboldened the Dems. I know that he thought that because of the controversy over the election, he was defusing tensions, etc. But the Dems just saw it as weakness, and they virtually spat in his face.
I’m sure Romney wouldn’t want to get bogged down in this, but as you say, if he wants to succeed, he’s going to have to restore some semblance of functionality to our government. Obama has gone beyond Clinton, whose incompetence and mischief generally didn’t make it to structural matters, and has destroyed or weakened some of our very governmental structures and concepts. And if Romney wants to restore them, he is probably going to have to act like a serious corporate hatchetman.