And Bush was such a great President, that all conservatives running for office today, openly claim his policies as their own.
President Bush was a lousy president and still the Democrats couldn't come up with a candidate to defeat him. Instead they nominated John Kerry.

As far as conservatives openly claiming his policies as their own, he was a lousy president and our current president has kept many of them in place.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson