Doyle McManus: How Pierre Delecto — sorry, Mitt Romney — is helping to save the republic
WASHINGTON - Pierre Delecto might save the republic yet.
Ever since Mitt Romney was elected to the U.S. Senate a year ago, he wrestled with his scratchy, uncomfortable role as a NeverTrump Republican in Donald Trump's Washington.
Even before he was sworn in, the senator from Utah published an op-ed decrying the president's "shortfall" in character, but promising to work with him on policy.
"The president has not risen to the mantle of the office," Romney fretted.
It got worse from there.
In a polarized, election-year Congress, Romney found few opportunities
