Because what he’s basically saying is that he’s given up to even think about a political solution for a political problem even before he’s started. Note well that the guy is running for a political office. But he won’t even try to do political work.

Yes, that’s Mitt Romney: He won’t even try to do the job he is applying for. And he is bragging about that during his job interview. (And nobody, nobody!, of the people who listened to him at that event even found that strange enough to—say—at least drop their fork.)

He won’t even try to do the job he is applying for. (Of course the reason for that is that in his mind the political office he’s running for isn’t about working on political problems and issues in a political way to begin with, but it’s only about funneling more money into his own pockets, and the pockets of the happy few who pay a lot of money to get him into office. Basically, he’s Berlusconi without the prostitutes.)