Is Bush Conservative?

Andrew Sullivan has this scathing critique:

Bush is not a conservative. He's a Christianist in social policy; and a left-liberal on entitlements. This has been clear for several years now. His main achievement has been to wean more and more people onto government assistance; and to pledge vast increases in the generosity of that assistance. None of this will be reversed; very few entitlements ever are. All that's left is a massive tax hike. But that's coming. When it arrives, whoever enacts it, it will be the legacy and policy of one man: George W. Bush. And it will have to be the biggest tax increase for a very long time.

Ouch. I find the duality of Bush's frames of reference interesting as well. Domestically, it seems like everything he has done has been for short-term political gain (tax cuts, steel tariffs, prescription drug plan) while in foreign policy the thinking is all airy-fairy "let the historians judge me" long-term thinking (democratizing the universe). I think Rove being the point-person on domestic policies has a lot to do with it.