You forgot the religious stuff -- Federal marriage & Pro-life Constitutional Amendments, tax dollars to promote Marriage, FCC censorship and the Constiution Restoration Act -- all of which provide more legislation at the federal level.
Social Security should have been a winning issue, though -- I want to tear the whole thing down, but the opt-out provision is a no-brainer. If the GOP could get that done, they would garner some conservative clout.
I have exchanged with those people as well.
I have also exchanged with people who embrace socialism as long as it is proposed by Republicans. They call themselves conservatives as well.
I have exchanged with those who support means testing SS instead of abolishing it. The President has started down that road. It transforms SS from a Ponzi scheme into a welfare program. But, if Bush likes it, they support it. And they consider it conservative.
I do not.