Government spending has gone through the roof and the deficit is exploding, yet George Bush has never even had the courage to exercise the veto, much less use his power to push for responsible government. He did offer 123 programs to cut or eliminate, including Cops on the street, Pell Grants, and Head Start, but the savings were less than $5 Billion, or roughly 3 weeks in Iraq! Alan Greenspan said we could afford Bush's tax cuts. Now he says we can't afford them, so we need to cut social security! Bush's policies aren't just bad, they make us weaker, and they threaten the future of our economic viability. And from a real conservative's point of view, Bush's policies aren't even good for business. They only help a lucky few, like Haliburton.
On Healthcare, he prohibited Medicare from negotiating with the big drug companies for lower prices. Is that supposed to be "conservative?" It helps the drug companies, but it hurts the sick, the elderly, and the tax-payer. And it isn't a smart way to do business anyway. How many companies could survive if they weren't allowed to negotiate with their vendors in order to lower their costs? There is a REASON George Bush ran so many companies into the ground, and it isn't because he's conservative.
And most damaging of all, George Bush has traded in our history of wise and thoughtful foreign policy for recklessness in both war and diplomacy. He used 9/11 as an excuse to launch America into his pet project of invading Iraq when he should have used it as a platform to (actually) fight terrorism. And once in Iraq, he sacrificed our opportunity to bring in desperately needed allies by giving no-bid contracts to his friends instead of inviting the world to join us. What an incredibly reckless, FOOLISH man to ask others to share the burdens but not the bounty. Harry Truman didn't even allow American companies to participate in the reconstruction of Japan, after WWII, because he felt the spectre of profiteering would do more damage to our credibility and long term goals than the profits to a few would be worth.
George Bush hasn't been conservative about anything that actually matters. He has been reckless, and consequences go far and wide, not just to the average American, but even to the business interests he tries so hard to represent.