Teresita: Are they to the right on limited government? Ronald Reagan vetoed the 1987 highway bill because it included 121 earmarks and was $10 billion over the line he had drawn in the sand. In 2005 Bush signed a $286.4 billion dollar highway bill passed by a GOP-controlled Congress, earmarking $24 billion for 6,376 pet projects. Last year the President pushed McCain’s bill granting a path to citizenship for 20 million illegal immigrants, and it was only a grassroots effort by abandoned conservatives, who demanded the border be locked down and illegals NOT be rewarded for breaking the law, which dialed back the GOP drive for amnesty. They know it will be suicide for the conservative cause. As soon as the 20 million illegals become citizens they will petition their (traditionally large) families to come over under reunification laws, and you will have 70 to 100 million brand new registered Democrats.

Size of government isn’t the only difference between right and left. True, it’s a core issue, but not the only one.