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For the past two years, Utah Senator Mitt Romney has sat down with The Atlantic staff writer and fellow Latter-Day Saints member McKay Coppins. Coppins has been covering Romney for over a decade and is now penning a biography of Romney that, according to Coppins, is astonishingly candid.

Axios reports:

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has turned over hundreds and hundreds of private emails, text messages and diary entries to reporter McKay Coppins for a book coming in October — including real-time communications among many of the most powerful figures in American politics, Axios has learned.

This volume of disclosure is unheard of for a major sitting officeholder — a trove historians dream of but rarely get. The emails and journal pages span Romney’s 2012 campaign as the Republican presidential nominee.

“Romney: A Reckoning,” to be published Oct. 24, “offers Romney’s lively and at times devastating take on nearly every major political figure of the last 25 years,” a publishing source tells me.

Seriously, does anyone outside of politics really care? Aside from being a burr in the side of conservatism, Mitt Romney has always been about as interesting as warm milk; and the milk is curdled.

The book “will also show Romney himself reckoning with what he considers his party’s slide toward authoritarianism and what role he may have played in empowering the extreme forces within the GOP.”

If extreme forces include separating the party from its conservative stance for traditional marriage or abandoning all fiscal responsibility by voting for the $1.7 trillion Omnibus package, then yeah, he’s definitely played an empowerment role. Romney was one of the 12 Republican senators who voted for the Respect for Marriage Act and was part of the gang of 18 that pushed through the Omnibus. So, he’s essentially taken over the late Senator John McCain’s role of screwing over the base.

Romney recognizes that the winds and direction of the Republican Party (especially in Utah) no longer support his brand of “conservatism.” In December, he played coy with POLITICO, saying he had not made a decision on whether he would run in 2024, but if he did, that winning was not a question in his mind.

Sure, Jan.

Even if Romney does not run for re-election, it will not mean he’s leaving the political stage. Grifters gonna keep grifting. Should he retire from the Senate, Romney is no doubt padding his bed for a Republican White House administrative role, say under former Vice President Mike Pence, or Ambassador Nikki Haley. I would also look for moves of him cozying up to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis too, as a way to appear he’s still simpatico with the party, but to also “moderate” DeSantis in his far-right leanings.

DeSantis should beware.

I would not even put it past Romney to join Biden’s re-election campaign, or be open to serving in a second Biden administration. In a 2022 book about Joe Biden and Barack Obama, the author wrote that Romney called Biden in 2018 and urged him to run against then-President Donald Trump.

That’s how flexible Mittens is.

Lately, Romney has been trying to play statesman, targeting NY Rep. George Santos at The State of the Union address on Tuesday to let him know he does not belong in the House of Representatives.

Most conservatives think Romney does not belong in the Senate. If the penning of this book is any indication, Romney appears to be doing some forward thinking. So, they may ultimately get their wish.