The answer is "not nearly to this degree".

The question is:

When George W. Bush first came on the scene in 2000, did you understand him to be a liberal in terms of spending?

Such is how the inimitable Peggy Noonan begins her column at the Opinion Journal this week. She says pointedly,

... if I’d thought he was a man who could not imagine and had never absorbed the damage big spending does—I wouldn’t have voted for him.

Nor would I have. In fact, I did not vote for Bush the first go 'round in 2000, choosing instead Harry Browne. But in 2004, I did vote for Bush, as I deemed Kerry's losing the popular vote more important than sending my tiny message to Washington concerning fiscal restraint.

Oh how I hope the Republicans get their act together and nominate a fiscal heavyweight for chief executive the next go 'round. If not, I'll be searching elsewhere.

Geesh, even the Democrats are harping on the fiscal largesse of this administration.