That's basically the same argument Mitt & his apologists make for his pro-abortion, pro-gay rights stance in MA: He "had to" take those positions so he could get elected in leftist MA. It's logical to conclude that he is now just talking like a conservative to get the Republican nomination.
Face it, people. There were only two candidates who had any fixed conservative principles: the better one dropped out yesterday (Hunter) and the other is reeling (Thompson). Probably this country is going to have to endure real disaster, extreme suffering, and the loss of our freedom and prosperity, before the sheeple wake up. But then it will be too late. By then the U.S. will be another Third World socialist tyranny, or even a failed state whose polyglot population engages in tribal genocide. We were given a Republic, and we have proven ourselves unable to keep it.
Or Americans can work now to put an end to the polyglot population and make the United States ethnically homogeneous. That way, even if the state fails, the nation can still survive.
Looks like you have nailed it.