I second your comments on social conservatives. Look at their recent example where they demanded an activist court when rulings didn't go their way.
Social conservatives have a history of supporting government activism. They used to be Southern Democrats-- fully supportive of all the expansionist agenda of FDR and LBJ, but separating on civil rights issues. The notion that "the government that governs best, governs least" was foreign to them as a blanket policy covering all government action.