James Bond’s family motto, as we learn in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” is orbis non sufficit, or in English, “the world is not enough.” The phrase shows both 007’s honor and the spirit of the “keep calm and carry on” generation: no earthly temptation can compare to queen and country. It’s such a great moment it inspired a sequel of the same name 30 years later.
But apparently, Mitt Romney missed it.
Fellow Utah Sen. Mike Lee is in the fight of his political life, and Romney refuses to endorse his reelection. Polls put Lee uncomfortably close to his challenger, a former CIA agent who has been an annoyance to Republicans since a quixotic bid for president in 2016.
After vanquishing a complacent incumbent 12 years ago, Lee probably thought the only thing that might end his Senate career was the Supreme Court appointment that never happened. Utah hasn‘t elected a Democrat to the Senate since the 1970s. But if Lee loses because of Romney’s silence – and Democrats hold on to a majority in the upper chamber – the Biden administration keeps their license to kill America.
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