"If I had to do this again, I’d insist that you literally had a camera on me at all times," said Mitt Romney...

... quoted by Mark Leibovich in a NYT Magazine article titled "Mitt Isn’t Ready to Call It Quits."

"I want to be reminded that this is not off the cuff." This, as he saw it, was what got him in trouble at that Boca Raton fund-raiser, when Romney told the crowd he was writing off the 47 percent of the electorate that supported Obama (a.k.a. “those people”; “victims” who take no “personal responsibility”). Romney told me that the statement came out wrong, because it was an attempt to placate a rambling supporter who was saying that Obama voters were essentially deadbeats.

“My mistake was that I was speaking in a way that reflected back to the man,” Romney said. “If I had been able to see the camera, I would have remembered that I was talking to the whole world, not just the man.”...

Romney’s camera-at-all-times plan... reflected his own limitations as a candidate. By the same token, it was quite an indictment that “Mitt” — made by a little-known filmmaker on a shoestring — created a more palatable rendering of Romney than his campaign, which spent hundreds of millions on genius operatives and image makers. Romney, for his part, seemed to understand this. No matter how content he appeared, when the conversation turned to his disappointment in losing, his voice dropped. “It really kills me,” he said. “It really kills me.” He became inaudible, and it seemed as if he might tear up.

Here's "Mitt," in case you're interested.  It's only on Netflix. I watched it a couple weeks ago when my younger son (who has Netflix) was in town. It didn't change how I saw Mitt, so I do think that view of him was, in fact, on display during the campaign for anyone inclined to see it. The reason so many people looking at that film now feel as though it shows something that had been hidden is, I think, that those people were against Mitt Romney and resistant to what was positive. After the election, they were open to material that had become harmless. Seemingly harmless. Romney might run again.