Last month at the Sutherland Institute you called yourself a renegade Republican, which underscores just how unlikely it is that you will have another chance to lead our party, or our country.
You nonetheless have an opportunity to demonstrate forward progress on two of America’s most important and most intractable challenges — health care and climate change — and in doing so you can create a political legacy that will reverberate through this century and beyond.
The first part of that legacy is already set: RomneyCare, the health care plan you established in 2006 as governor of Massachusetts.