I wouldn't mind if he'd SAY so, but he's got a well-oiled campaign machine (I know someone in it), and they feed him all these lines meant to get conservatives all happy.
As long as they don't look at his record, he'll be fine with them. But you know what they say about fooling some of the people some of the time...
“and they feed him all these lines meant to get conservatives all happy.”
I agree...and, as I said, I got that same impression with what he said about coming out about moderate Islam. It was like “pick me, oh pick me” and his people knew so little that they probably think CAIR is moderate.