Postcards from the Lege in Texas reports Mitt Romney, not John McCain, will be a featured speaker at the state Republican convention in Houston in June.

Hans Klingler, spokesman for the state party, said McCain and Romney were both invited when they were competing presidential candidates. Romney, who subsequently quit the race, RSVP’d to the Texas GOP first (unsaid: he foresaw more free time all of a sudden).

Perhaps Romney will deliver a sequel to the religious address he made while still a presidential candidate. He managed to sidestep the "Mormon question" that time. But the FLDS raid in Eldorado Texas is likely to be on every convention delegate's mind. It would provide a "teachable moment" for Mitt to explain the difference between the FLDS and his own LDS tribe.

Texas Judge Barbara Walther's recent request that the local mainstream LDS community monitor the FLDS's prayers makes it clear even educated Texans have an imperfect understanding of Mormondom. (Would Walther ask Shia Muslims could oversee Sunni pilgrimages?)

LDS/FLDS expert John Walsh notes:

It shows that the judge does not have a nuanced understanding of Mormon culture and of the very different churches that are part of the Mormon umbrella. She is in essence saying that we want one branch of the schism to supervise the other branch, which in any other religion would be problematic.

Mitt could provide that nuanced understanding to Texans.