"One reason that I have been successful in business is that I hire the best people. I pay them well, and I keep them working for me. There are times when I meet someone working on the other side of the deal. Maybe they don't beat me, but they give me a tough time. I respect that. In fact, I respect that so much that sometimes I hire them away from the company they were negotiating for."
Hiring an Alpha Snake to clear out the snake pit that is the State Department might be what's going on here, who knows.
And there's this: "So here's the way I work. I find the people who are the best in the world at what needs to be done, then I hire them to do it, and then I let them do it...but I always watch over them.
But this is different, Romney doesn’t need the money to be hired away from the other side.
There is no way one could ever fully trust Romney. I guess we’ll see if there is a place he can serve without the risk of backstabbing.