The Salt Lake Tribune looks at Romney’s ancestry.  SURPRISE! - they were Mormons too, and did what Mormons did back then - Imagine that.  The Corner reacts.  Lowell:  Kate O’Beirne’s analysis is hilarious.  I’m going to post some more about this when I have time.  For now, I’ll just note that I have some polygamous Mormon ancestors too, dating back to the 19th century, and that fact is about as consequential in my life as it might be if some of them were left-handed.  What is more important to me is that by all accounts they were fine people,  Anyone who is a Mormon and happens to have several generations of Mormons in their family history, with Utah roots, is likely to have the same kind of genealogy.  In other words, it’s just an interesting part of our past.

Meanwhile, is “the Mormon question” an MSM construct?  Lowell:  The comments to this blog post are pretty interesting.

In other potential Republican candidate news:

• Ponnuru says Allen is dead in the water.  Lowell:  I tend to agree, but I’m always wary of premature pronouncements of political death.  Then again, Brendan Miniter has some comments about Allen that can only be called devastating.
• RCP Blog says McCain is getting all the good people. — And yet . . . .  Lowell:  Remember, the RCP Blog is quoting a New York Times article, and the Times has been in a swoon over McCain for at least a decade now.

And, at the general intersection of faith and politics:

• This struck me as an excellent brief treatise on how they intersect - from a Biblical perspective
• And this is an example of the wrong way to do it.  This reminds me so much of the Soviet Union (I was there in 1991 - just before the revolution, leaving the day it started) and it’s many beautiful Orthodox “museums.”

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