I would start with this along with some other items posted:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/its_not_bushs_fault.html
That’s a weak link. I am not blaming Bush for everything, just acknowledging that he isn’t a conservative, unless it’s relative to Obama. GM should have done a prepack BK and the same with the TBTF banks. Government could have reassured the marketplace without extending any real credit.
Remember that GW Bush was a two term President, that’s 8 years. He gave us the DHS and the TSA. He could have let a couple of airlines BK or merge after 9/11. They were limping along anyway and that would have shored up the entire industry.
You can’t have it both ways - a free market and a crony capitalist market. We have the latter. I want the former. I am a conservative.