Article snippet: Over his long career, Mitt Romney has been a political chameleon. He was the moderate Republican governor of Massachusetts, then the party’s conservative presidential nominee in 2012. He spoke out forcefully against Donald Trump before the 2016 election, then lobbied for a role in the new president’s Cabinet. He accepted Trump’s endorsement for his 2018 Senate run, then criticized the president’s character just before being sworn in. Is another Romney transformation taking shape — into the senator who tries to rally Republican opposition to the president as the House impeachment inquiry gains momentum? “There is a huge vacuum to be filled. He has the moral standing and the ability to do that and he certainly could be someone that disparate parts of the party and the country could rally around by just speaking truth,” said John Weaver, a former aide to the late John McCain, another Republican senator known for high-profile breaks with his party — and with Trump. So far, Republican support for the impeachment inquiry has been largely nonexistent. A few Republicans in Congress have expressed tepid disapproval of Trump’s communications with Ukraine and China urging investigations into Joe Biden and his son, targeting one of the leading contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Romney has been one of them. And he’s ramped up his criticism in recent days, operating with the relative safety of representing Utah, a Republican state where voters aren’t ... Link to the full article to read more