Old style, small government conservatism died the day George Bush decided to embrace the role of world policeman.
America really hasn't had small government conservatism since Calvin Coolidge. And we haven't had a POTUS whose had any success at limiting government since Ronald Reagan. Ever since the end of WWII, the US has been the policeman to the world. For he most part, I support the Bush foreign policy agenda and his prosecution of the WOT. This is no time to show weakness aginst Islamic jihad.
Its Bush`s liberal spending habits and his domestic policy agenda that has expanded the federal bureaucracy to levels never seen before, that I see as undermining the conservative idea of limited government. And the Bush promotion of a liberal immigration reform doesn't help to advance the conservative agenda either.