Ah Ha.....Romney pulled the old consulting trick..

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Been there. You magnify problems you already know how to fix, so the client
thinks you are genius when you fix them.

Critics say Romney overstated the scale of the Games’ budget woes. “The crisis was one of image. It was not a fiscal crisis,” says Bullock. Others think Romney wanted to magnify the scandal to cast himself as a savior. “It’s remained a scandal because Mitt made it that way by overblowing the problems,” says Sydney Fonnesbeck, a Democrat and former Salt Lake City council member who recalls Romney urging her to ask Tom Welch, the former head of the bid committee, to plead guilty to bribery charges. (A federal judge dismissed allegations against Welch and a fellow executive.) “From the day he came in,” she says, “it was pretty clear that he was there for Mitt and was going to run for governor.”

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/07/18/the-real-story-of-romneys-olympic-turnaround/#ixzz20zf4Hze7

[aquart]

1. So not a surprise.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. yup....for someone who meticulously, anally, plans a trip from Boston to Ontario by even calculating

exactly where he will stop for gas (who does that?)....he probably does nothing without an afterplan involved