Romney showed once and for all last night that being President would eat him alive

Mitt Romney thinks he wants to be President. As an act of mercy, the American people should spare him and re-elect someone who is actually temperamentally and intellectually suited for the job.

I think I know Romney. In fact, the company I work for was almost bought by Bain in the 90s when he was there. He passed, which was not a bad decision by him, btw. Instead, we were bought by another group of vultures, which gave me some insight into their mindset, and his.

Mitt is a project guy. Take an asset, repackage it, sell it at a profit. The job is a set of calculations all pushing toward a profitable exit for investors. There is no strategy involved, no vision, just short-term gain. The company? It was someone else's vision, someone else's idea.

Romney can focus like a laser on specific items, but the conclusions are never synthesized with a broader view. He doesn't build, he manipulates. He looks for the next transaction.

Now think of what it took for President Obama to rebuild America's image in the world and keep up the pressure on al Qaeda. He had to first connect with the Arab world on a human level, what the Republicans call the "apology tour." The President has not just "killed our way out of the problem," as Romney stated last night, his vision extended much further than that. He has made us safer and more respected, he has advanced American values, taking major risks in the process, such as in Libya, which few in his own Administration even wanted to touch. He has built, he has not manipulated.

The irony of Romney's mail-it-in performance last night is, if he were to become President, he'd spend a lot more time on foreign policy than he presently believes. All Presidents do. He has no interest or ability to even approach competence in foreign policy. He is an impatient, often intolerant man. The outside world would find the manipulator extremely easy to manipulate. Their defiance would unnerve him. Hopefully, enough registered voters show up on Nov. 6 to spare him, and us, this pain.