U.S. conservatives gunning for the presidential payoff Jan. 15, 2005. 08:14 AM TIM HARPER PHOENIX, Ariz.—When U.S. President George W. Bush takes his oath of office next week in the midst of a $40-million, four-day orgy of Republican euphoria, he will be carrying the dreams of a newly emboldened conservative movement. The American right is ascendant. It is empowered. And it is impatient. Evangelicals and ``faith-based'' groups are looking to Bush to do nothing less than entrench a conservative philosophy, one they believe has long been trampled and one they expect will last a generation or more. Their fundamental beliefs...