Nothing says romance like conversion. Abraham leaps from polytheism to monotheism, and just look what happens to his wife–at ninety years old, no less. What about Paul? He turns Christian, and pretty soon he’s writing history’s most famous meditation on love. Nope, nothing says romance like conversion.

But when it comes to romance, political conversion is best of all–particularly a move from left to right. After all, Romeo started out loving Rosaline, a woman who opposed free trade, yet ended up with someone against all such barriers. Abelard and Heloise? Admittedly, this couple practiced free trade at the start, succumbing to severe protectionism only later. Nonetheless, if Abelard was unconventional, he also combined the roles of professor and religious believer. In my book, that means Abelard ended up a conservative.

So there you have it. Conversion from liberal to conservative politics: the ultimate aphrodisiac. Surely this is why Simon & Schuster’s Threshold imprint (headed by Mary Matalin–a famous lover herself), has released Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys just in time for Valentine’s Day. Guys, you catch my drift. Give her the gift of Why I Turned Right, (the book they said was too well written to be true) and I promise you, she will never let you forget it. But don’t take my word for it. Ask the other Paul: Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff.