Its hard to pick just a bit of this essay and post it; please read the whole thing but this is IMO the best part from conservative Lew Rockwell (found on antiwar.com):
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/training-wheels.html
"On the home front, another unspeakable scene: a huge conservative celebration in Washington, DC, attended by the usual hacks, hucksters, interns, college Republicans, political junkies, bumper-sticker salesmen, special interest pleaders, cynical intellectuals, organizers, would-be power brokers, and naïve throngs of dupes, plus some sincere people who truly believe that the conservative movement is a viable vessel for change toward freedom.
Bush spoke. That's the Bush, the one who has inflated the federal budget at a pace that matches and even exceeds that of Lyndon Johnson, and a man who has presided over and exacerbated the worst thing to happen to the world since the Cold War: the rise of global terrorism and US imperialism locked in a recurrent cycle of self-reinforcing mutual dependency - a perfect storm for the leviathan State."
I think the government can do a lot more good (healthcare is the big one - I hear stories that break my heart) but I also think big government does a lot of crap thats more harm than good. There really is a "third way" that takes the best of both but we seem to have gotten a third way that takes the worst: militarism and imperialism from the right and monstrous deficit spending from the left.