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I appreciate your zeal for Conservatism and Limited Government. That's why I am a Republican. If we're not about Small Government than I'm in the wrong. Wrong website, wrong voting patterns, wrong convictions, wrong everything.

I don't claim that Stephen Slivinski is coming down off the mountain with the tablets here. Hopefully, a conservative with a different point of view is here who can refute what he writes. Let me give you a sampling, while staying under the 200 word limit so I don't get sued for copywright violations:

Let's start in the 1970's.

"But as President, Nixon thoroughly disappointed supporters of limited government.

Nixon mainly believed that it was the role of Republicans to run Big Government better than Democrats. So he spent taxpayer money faster than Lyndon Johnson in many areas--much to the delight of the congressional Democrats. He even created entirely new agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, both of which Republicans would later target as the poster children of a bloated and out of control federal government."
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Now bear in mind that you are talking to someone (me) who went to 2nd grade with a Richard Nixon lunchbox filled with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, cookies and juice.

Can somebody a little bit older who lived through that period not watching Sesame Street tell me a different story?

Well, as someone who went to 2nd grade with a "Welcome Back Kotter" lunch box, I fear I may not have a much deeper background from which to speak, but I believe he was a rather schizophrenic Republican.

From Wikipedia:

As President, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, indexed Social Security for inflation, and created Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The number of pages added to the Federal Register each year doubled under Nixon. He eradicated the last remnants of the gold standard. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), implemented the Philadelphia Plan, the first significant federal affirmative action program, and dramatically improved salaries for U.S. federal employees worldwide. As a party leader, Nixon helped build the Republican Party (GOP), but he ran his 1972 campaign separately from the party, which perhaps helped the GOP escape some of the damage from Watergate. The Nixon White House was the first to organize a daily press event and daily message for the media, a practice that all subsequent staffs have performed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon