Shouldn't limited govt work and mostly private sector work be a disadvantage?

[TheGlobalizer]

@Retromike - His point is that the usual suspects are not achieving conservative goals.  Classic outsider preference argument.  He's basically saying that an inexperienced conservative outsider is more likely to get a net positive outcome for the majority of people on the political right than an experienced conservative insider.  With some exceptions, he may be right.

You have to remember that conservative philosophies generally advocate smaller government and laissez faire economics.  Being good at government isn't a particular asset in such a philosophy, whereas being part of "the regulated" can be.

If I was Romney I'd be playing the "outsider with executive experience in public and private sector roles" all day long, it's his best argument.