Should 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney be elected senator from Utah this November, he’ll be the first major-party presidential nominee to be subsequently elected to a lower office since former Vice President/1968 Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., returned to the Senate in 1970.
Romney’s prophetic foreign policy predictions during his presidential run give him the ability to have an impact far greater than your typical freshman senator on vital international issues. Unlike Humphrey, who failed to obtain a slot on the Foreign Relations Committee upon his return to the Senate, in part because of his party’s dovish turn on the Vietnam war, Democrats and Republicans alike have lauded Romney for calling out Russia as a major geopolitical threat before the annexation of Crimea and interference in U.