The Republicans are not conservatives they are Republicans.
I don't think I've ever seen this stated so succinctly. Nice!
My problem with both political parties in the US is that they both seem to think you can get results just by declaring you want the result, rather than actually taking action to cause the result. I would say the Republican party seems a little better about taking actions that have a close chance to meet their goals, I just don't like their goals. The Democrats in general seem to have the more laudable goals, but their methods are far less effective. ACA is a great example - it claims to have been aimed to get people more health care but what it did was give people health insurance. In order to really get better health care at more affordable prices, you have to foster an environment that produces more health care providers (doctors, pharma, the whole shebang) at lower barriers to entry.
Pushing for "equal wages for group X" also sounds good on paper, but it falls apart when it comes to implementation. It also can't be fixed in something less than a generation - you have to first change culture so that the labor pool for all jobs is first equally distributed with respect to all groups, then change the culture so that all laborers in each job are getting equal wages. Simply mandating "equal wages for all in aggregate in a year" isn't going to work simply because the labor population isn't distributed in a way that makes that possible.