Compassionate conservatism was really just another name for moderate liberalism.
Bush and his family was born up in the Northeast. They brought their moderate mamby-pamby Northeastern style squishy conservatism with’em.
Sorry Bush family, we all see through Karl Rove’s moderate at best politics. This Texan won't be fooled again.
You nailed it. I wrote about this very thing in fact at AT:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_architect_has_no_clothes.html