Snyder is an important business leader and as such he might very well know what government has to do to allow private enterprise to thrive and for an economy to create jobs.  However, he is one of those big government moderates that believes that government has a central role to play in manipulating an economy to desired social and environmental outcomes.  True conservatives, regardless of the slick packaging, should reject this premise as part of their core beliefs without hesitation.

If Republicans had proven to be generically trustworthy I wouldn't have had to become a part of the tea party movement; a movement more in response to establishment Republicans supporting statist career politicians than it has anything to do with Democrats.  Seriously, who among us conservatives doesn't expect democrats to nominate a stable of bonehead candidates?  But from the GOP we expect better.  

We expect the GOP to stand on the foundation of smaller government, to stand in support of private enterprise and capitalism, and to promote an environment where individuals are allowed to operate freely without fear of the collective.