It is arresting to imagine a Romney White House, inevitably filled with as many former Bain colleagues as each of his other public ventures have been: The PowerPoints, the 80-20 jargon, the clinical separation of decision-making from ideology, the detachment of those decisions from moral consequence, a persistent blind spot for people as people. It would represent the final ascension of a perfectly American type, one that has already remade the culture of business. I once asked a Bain colleague of Romney’s how Romney thought of his own core competence. “I think Mitt thinks he’s good at being Mitt Romney,” the colleague said.
When you push, people naturally rebel, when you pull you allow people to come to their own conclusion, ergo they will become an ally, and steadfast in the same ideals you brought them to.
Reagan was an expert at it, that was his ability to reach the people.
If Romney would do to the Dept. of Ed., the EPA, and a few others, what he did to some of the corps. he took over and shut down, I would be leading the cheers!