From a conversation last night with someone completely alien to Planet Politics, but smart and insightful in her way.

I want to like Romney. I think he’s a good man, a generous man. But his nervous system is pitched too high. He doesn’t let things come to him, but feels he has to try to catch everything, even if it’s way over his head. He feels he has to be perfect.

Everyone, except the hard core of Romney’s supporters who actually like him, knows what this person is talking about, but I have never heard it put quite this way.

I said, Then the one he has to be perfect for is George Romney.Would he be that way in the White House? my friend asked. No, I said. George never made it to the White House.