Mark Z. Barabak: Harsh words for Putin and Republican crackpots turn Mitt Romney into a truth-teller
Mitt Romney has been several things in his political career. The socially moderate governor of Massachusetts. The "severely conservative" 2012 GOP nominee for president. The adopted son of Utah, the state he represents in the United States Senate.
Now — at age 74, his once jet-black hair streaked with gray, his still-square jaw softened with age — Romney has emerged as something else, a truth-teller and voice of conscience in the Republican Party.
He's been on a vindication tour of late, owing to something he said a decade
