I think you misunderstood me....Bush is too far to the right to be a conservative....he's a reactionary. A radical. Rightists can be radicals also.

Think of (Godwin, please excuse me for a moment) Mussolini. He was definitely a radical (understatement). He was definitely not a liberal (another understatement). They say that you can go so far in either direction that it makes no difference after a while (hence the similarity of Mussolini's tactics to, say, Stalin's).

In any event, who's Bush's heir apparent in the "conservative" movement? Nobody. Conservatism is fucked because they got snookered badly by a mob of radicals. Any attempt to paint Bush as a liberal (ha!) is doomed to failure, and I think those trying to push that line are fully aware of it too.