Derek B. Miller: Opportunity knocks on Mitt Romney's door

Millions hung their heads in disbelief at the outcome on election night 2012. Nowhere was the disappointment felt more deeply than Utah. The state’s favorite adopted son, Gov. Mitt Romney, had lost a hard-fought battle for the U.S. presidency. Romney’s defeat was a lost opportunity for the country, a country that desperately needed just the kind of help he was expert in. It was like suffering a heart attack on a plane that just happened to be carrying the nation’s foremost card