Bachmann is a Christian.
Romney is a Mormon Bachmann is a onservativve. Romney is a Socialist. I would would like to have seen more questions to Rick Santorum last night. I have never been particularly fond of Rush Limbaugh.
Bachmann is an opportunist fully prepared to sling mud at Perry over social security from the LEFT’S talking points until Rush slapped her down. That isn’t my definition of a conservative.
As for Rush he’s the only “unelectable” consrvative I’d vote for this year not that he’ll run. My take is he favors Perry among the “electable” candidates (I think he still likes Newt best but Newt’s baggage is too heavy) but what he really favors is beating Obama and he hates that the Republicans are killing each other to the left’s delight which will result in all of their general election numbers being dragged on as long as this goes on. That’s why he keeps praising Newt for taking it to the moderators and Obama and refusing to engage the will of the moderator.
However he’s giving Perry fair warning about the illegal immigration thing. This isn’t 2000 when bush ran and it wasn’t a major issue. The thing is if Perry apologized it would come across as insincere, his record is too long. Doesn’t have a choice but to stick with it...and I think he believes it anyway. His best way of dealing with it would just be to say he’ll work to secure the border and every other policy he’ll work to find a majority consensus with the American people on. Basically make a promise he won’t go off on his own and try to implement an unpopular policy on this issue the way Bush tried in 2006. That’s the only avenue he has there.