People like George Bush (pick one) haven't done the reputation of Ivy League education any favors either. While neither of them are the absolute filth that 0bama, Kerry and Clinton are, they aren't conservatives. I think Bush and Bam-Bam have more in common with each other than they have with, for example, a moderately prosperous engineer like me. They share, IMO, a "ruling-class" mindset.
No, they (either Bush) are not conservatives by any measure. Then again, they aren’t vile, evil Marxists, either. Rather, they fall into the Statist category. Only a marginal improvement.