Nope. "Conservatives" thought Republicans and GWB could snap their fingers and change things. I knew it was foolish then, but no one wanted to listen.
We didn't have to worry about a government takeover of healthcare, or of a trillion dollar plus deficit, or ROE's in the wars that guaranteed defeat, or abandonment of Israel, or our tax cuts being taken away, or the EPA destroying our energy supply, or terrorists being given all the rights of a common American criminal, or any of a thousand other things that Pelosi and Obama have foisted on us.
"Conservatives" didn't realize how good we had it, or how bad it could get.
Now, after this tsunami (more like a high tide), we are about the same place in the House, and nine Senators down. I doubt conservatives will ever regain the power they had in 2004.
Two words: Harriet Miers.