Some conservative pundits and thinkers are trying to distance themselves from Bush these days by calling him (I still laugh at this) a "liberal".  Digby predicted this would happen last November. 

The god for rightwingers is not Bush, but conservatism — so rather than admit that Bush’s obvious policy embarassments are the failure of conservatism, they hope to re-cast Bush’s demise as a failure of liberalism.

I highly recommend Greenburg’s take-down of this silly meme.  [UNC professor Jonathan Weiler also chimes in].