I like how you characterize this. Letting it happen. You know this is my forte. I don't have to say anything or have any plan, I just let people talk in my presence. I would have something to say to them though: "Why did you make me come here?"
I have a plan, since I'm a one man band, I'm a team player, but having a team to run for President is another matter. Since I have no plan and no idea what I am doing I'm going to take the Green Party Candidates let them be my VP and SOC. If you like the Green Party and you're not sure you trust them, well, then, trust me. After I've had all my Ideas torn up on the floor of the House, you can just have them, no, I'm kidding, The other thing I would want to do as President is gut the meat industry. I try to get Green Party to do this for me, but they say, "No, you must run yourself." You don't want your tax dollars going to murder the unborn, I don't want my tax dollars feeding murdered animals to my children, or anywhere else, all vegan.
Yes, he did the right thing and if he had not we would not have come out of it flat, but as soon as Obama had us projecting out of disaster, oh, no, no more. Instead of restoring what was broken, they had to play politics and the voters are so bright that they go for it again and again.