Re: the bailout and amnesty during last year’s campaign, I think we saw a natural chief executive doing her best to be a team player and trying to make that team a respectable, more conservative winner. But whenever she had to sort of a little support something she really wasn’t fully behind, she had the integrity to add a qualifier such that you could see she saw the greater principle that she also wanted to acknowledge.
She might get squishy on federal-level spending for the handicapped or education (and absolutely every even tiny-government pol has his or her hobby horse!), but I don’t think government bailouts or illegal immigration or global warming are likely areas where she strays from true conservative orthodoxy at all.