The news that Orrin Hatch will retire from the Senate means, at least according to conventional wisdom, that Mitt Romney — former presidential candidate, former governor of Massachusetts and current resident of Utah — will run for his seat. Romney is said to be so popular that he is all but a shoe-in.
It goes almost without saying that the world would be a happier place had Romney won the 2012 presidential election. He had a clearer view of the world than did President Obama, not the least of which was his perception of Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a threat to world peace.