I got some of the best e-mails last night, all self-deprecating, kind, and normal. All written by people with a good sense of humor and good will.

Unless, of course, that’s just part of the plan…

Kathryn, I very much enjoy your posts at the Corner. Yesterday, before the revelation that Mr. Sampson was Mormon, coincidentally I happened to be in our company’s CFO’s office (I am General Counsel) and we were discussing religion, etc. Anyway, one of our project managers came by and in the course of the conversation I disclosed that I was Mormon. Our CFO piped up, “Oh, like Mitt Romney? — Do you know him?” Well, of course I do! He meant well, but I just found it extremely curious why anyone would think that I did know him. (I did know Rex Lee, however, former Solicitor General of the United States and later President of Brigham Young University…hmmm….) You won’t survive tomorrow. Soon you’ll be one of us. Slurping down green jello at ward potluck dinners and marching in lockstep to the ever-seeing Eye in Salt Lake…. You have been warned! Seriously, have fun tomorrow, and be sure to tease the BYU kids mercilessly. My little brother might be there.

Seriously though: I still think if other problems are surmountable, being Mormon doesn’t hurt Romney. Why? He’s self-deprecating, kind, and normal. He shares common values with a whole host of people — as Catholic me does with a BYU crowd.

If he can convince people he’d make a good leader, commander in chief (and, early on, a conservative one) — that’s the challenge. The other stuff: As (if) people get to know him, see the family…no problemo.