I'd disagree. 3 major federal income tax cuts. Banning Partial Birth Abortion. Deploying National Missile Defenses. Increased military funding and soldier pay-raises. Ending the Estate Tax. Ending the double-tax on dividends. Assault Weapons Ban expired. 2 laws to arm pilots (more than a thousand are flying armed today).Versus such decidedly liberal initiatives such as Campaign Finance Reform. Hostility to stopping illegal immigration. Reauthorizing at a much higher budget the Department of Education. Huge increases in Medicaid spending. Prescription meds for seniors (watch how THAT one bankrupts us in a decade). And so on.
I won't argue that Bush is a liberal -- he's not -- but he is disappointingly not a hard-core conservative.
Politics is, after all, the art of the possible. It is impossible for Bush and the republicans to govern from as far right as we would like. In fact your far right and my far right would differ considerably since our social views are considerably different.
After all is sadi and done, Americans pretty much get both what they want and what they deserve. And that's the truth of the matter.