Just as long as it's popular in South Carolina, it's okay with Mitt

Mitt Romney just had a life-changing experience. While driving in a blizzard in Iowa, he literally saw the light, and will be giving up his Mormon religion for a true faith. He doesn't care much which one it is, "just as long as it's popular in South Carolina, it's okay with Mitt"

In this satirical op-ed in the Boston Globe, Scott Lehigh examines Mitt's transformation.

Although some political experts said Romney's conversion might strike some as expedient - polls have shown that some voters won't support a Mormon candidate - his campaign adviser insisted that most people simply won't care.

''Voters want to know that you're on their side, and what better way to demonstrate it than by joining their faiths?'' this person said. ''Besides, Mitt says he's hardly the first one to switch religions.''

Asked just who else he had in mind, the political adviser said he'd have to check. He called back some hours later to cite Henry of Navarre. Raised as a Protestant, Henry twice converted to Catholicism, the first time to save his life after the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572. Although he recanted those vows once the danger had passed, he converted again in 1593, this time to render himself acceptable as king to France's Catholic population. It was on that occasion he uttered the remark he is best known for: ''Paris is worth a mass.''

''It turns out since Mitt's days as a young man doing his Mormon mission in France, Henry of Navarre has been his great hero,'' the adviser noted..

''Other than Ronald Reagan, that is,'' he hastened to add.