Compassionate conservatives aren't compassionate or conservt

When I first heard the words the compassionate conservative, I was ecstatic.

Could this have been the reform in the republican party I was looking for?

A party that believes in reducing government spending, paying off the defecit, making things simpler and freer for businesses, cutting down govt. bueracracy and inefficancies, maintaining a strong military, essentially having a realistic agenda, all while stopping with all the stuff that makes republicans so repugnant.

Stopping with the favoritism of the rich and the huge corporations over small businesses and hard working americans, crazy fundamentalism that ostrasizes huge segments of the population, stopping with the civil rights violations, idiotic concepts such as encouraging the death penalty while acknowledging that many innocent people have been killed and will continue to be killed by the system, undue government interventions into personal choices and private lives (regulating whether or not two consenting adults can have sex in the privacy of their own bedroom, what's that about?) (passing laws that essentially let the govt arrest and detain people indefinately without ever pressing charges, holding a trial, or so much as telling the person or their family why they're being held against their will).

Was the term compassionate conservative supposed to be somekind of sick inside joke or something? Kinda like the patriot act, or No Child Left Behind.

Would discompassionate liberal be more appropriate.