The debate around FR is whether G.W. Bush is a conservative. Wrong question, I think. My observation is that W is not ideologically conservative, but is instinctively conservative, more in line with personal character and values than any specific philosophy of government. On the political spectrum, Bush is center-right. He'll never be conservative enough for the paleos, and I would hope he wouldn't be. If he is more conservative than not, I'm satisfied. Politically, Bush is a centrist, but he is slowly moving the center more to the right. I think a lot of what he has done is to also take over territory a bit to the left of center, forcing the opposition further to the left fringe. If this consigns the Democrats to eternal darkness, it's a good strategery because aside from the Democrats being simply a leftist organization, the Democrat Party is dominated by people who are actually evil, having sold it's soul to the Clintons and having failed to buy it back. I'll vote decency and integrity over evil any day.
BINGO, but that will not matter to those who knee jerkingly curse those(politically center voters) for not being idealogically pure.