Depends on what you call “business”. The Chamber of Crony Corporatism is very anti-business, for example.
Well, there’s no need for us to argue on and on.
I live in MA. I thought Romney was OK for a while, but then he gave us RomneyCare. I thought he did it as a set up for his Presidential run, so he could say in the campaign, “Look, I fixed healthcare in MA.” Well, RomneyCare isn’t so great, and Obama likes to say it was the inspiration for his ACA mandate. I felt he left us in the lurch with that health plan as a strategic move for a 2008 candidacy. So, I’m not a huge Romney fan.
However, a number of things he said about foreign policy—like Russia as an adversary, and about the Middle East as affected by Obama’s current policies—turned out to be true.
Also, he understands how business works, and therefore I think he understands incentives, over-regulation, and tax policy.
He’s a mixed bag at best. I hope he isn’t our nominee in 2016. However, he’s better than Obama by a long shot, and on business matters, I don’t think he’s an automatic far-left on policy. I don’t think he would have loaded the NLRB with the type of far-left pro-union types Obama has, and that’s how this conversation started.
But, that’s my opinion, and since Romney is nothing at the moment, what diff does it make?