Romney doesn't want to actually be a president, he just wants the title
Obviously he has little clue about how government works - just look at the mess he created in Massachusetts. And now with his flub about firefighters, police & teachers; it's clear that Romney has very little understanding about what exactly a president does.
To me Romney seems like a man who wants to brag. He's help to organize the Olympics, served as a governor (just 1 term) and made millions running a company (while firing thousands of people). Being a president is nothing more than a way to seal his name in the history books.
But actually doing the job - the guy doesn't have a clue. The fact that he speeches are written on etch-a-sketches that he erases the moment he needs to change his opinion on something shows that actually running the job isn't something he's clear about. Now he's got some hair-brain scheme that his presidential salary would be based on performance. Really? So what incentive do you have to actually do a good job that helps all people when the $400k salary a president makes is nothing more than weekend pocket change for you. You could fuck up the entire 4 years, receive no salary and still be in the 1%.
This man is a joke and I can't wait for him to lose - hopefully he'll go away forever!
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I think he believes it's like being royalty. He'll just get to sit around and bark orders at his servants. He has no clue how hard he'd actually have to work. He might even break a sweat...like he will at the Presidential debates. 
like Nixon, Reagan and Little Boots.
They don't care if he has a clue or not. He's a sale they are going to make. 
bothers me, & I'm being serious here, but I don't think think he's all there. Early dementia - I don't know.
I watch his face when he's in an adoring group of Republicans who are clapping for him. I look at his face & it looks like someone who is being applauded while accepting an award of some kind.
It's like he's looking out at his loving fans as he's being awarded his hard earned Oscar, Emmy, or Pulitzer Prize.
I don't know how to explain it, but it's just not natural to me.
But I agree, I think he wants to play 'dress up', and have the title, while the unelected shadow gov't works treasonously behind the scenes.
Remember this, too:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/grover-norquist-speech-cpac.html
Norquist: Romney Will Do As Told
by David Frum Feb 13, 2012 9:45 AM EST
Is Mitt Romney so weak he won't be able to stand up to Congress?
They have reconciled themselves to a Romney candidacy because they see Romney as essentially a weak and passive president who will concede leadership to congressional conservatives:
All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.
The requirement for president?
Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.
This is not a very complimentary assessment of Romney's leadership. It's also not a very realistic political program: congressional Republicans have a disapproval rating of about 75%. If Americans get the idea that a vote for Romney is a vote for the Ryan plan, Romney is more or less doomed.
To date, sad to say, Romney has worked hard to confirm this image of weakness.
