If the American people are satisfied with the status quo, why redo our health-care system entirely and turn much of it over to the federal government, which has not demonstrated a great problem-solving ability?
The country was tired of polarization, and Mitt could provide a problem-solving antidote, a demonstrated ability to bring a Republican solution -- the individual mandate -- to a problem that Democrats traditionally cared most about.
Superior mental faculties, such as language and the ability to engage in abstract problemsolving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.