The very fact that there is a daily Bush thread on FR is testament to that, nopardons - so you're full of crap for even asking that.
But that apparently isn't enough for the GOP leadership - to ask socons to take a half-step to the left. Now it is demanded by them and folks like you that we move 80 or 90 percent to the left. Even though a lot of the issues stated about Bush in 1999 and 2000 ended up coming to pass - especially his compassionate conservatism, where he is compassionate by massively increasing the size of the federal government.
When does it end? At what point will the GOP cease to differentiate itself from the Dems and there is no reason to care, and it all becomes a battle over who gets to control the allocation of the swag?
Of course, it will never be the leadership's fault for not giving large segments of the base reason to vote, let along volunteer or donate.
If that is so, them that is a very strange happenstance and I'm sure that ALL of FR are going to be quite interested in this "factoid".