Nina Easton gets the president of the Southern Baptist Convention on record today on a potential Romney run for president:

”It would be extraordinarily hard for mainline denomination people in the South to openly and strongly politick or be involved in a Mormon’s run for office,” said Bobby Welch, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest non-Catholic denomination and a fixture of the Christian right.

The sum-up of the piece, though, is: It depends who is running. From Richard Land, another SBC official:

”[I]f Mitt Romney were running against Rudy Giuliani,” Land added, referring to the socially liberal former mayor of New York, ”he’d probably get a lot more votes than Rudy.”