Who knows. All I know is Romney could have stepped aside and said, hey I got an 85% opposing legislature here. Instead he jumped in and made some very good changes. He doesn’t just talk, he gets in there and makes real changes.
He is a unique politician.
One of the things that bothered me about Romney happened in one of the debates. When the question of taxes was raised he said something along the lines of “I don’t worry about tax cuts for the the $100K+ bracket”. That struck me as pandering at the most base level.