[cinives]

who, even by American standards, has drifted pretty far to the right

I guess these folks never met a "real" conservative.

[2banana]

Yet what did the Clinton administration achieve? The first two-term Democrat president since Franklin D Roosevelt will be remembered

and let us not forget he had a democrat Senate and democrat House for his first two years...

[Cogadh na Sith]

A good article about American Conservatism.

In many ways, however, it is a much more liberal creed than British Toryism: it has no respect for hierarchy, let alone feudalism; it is also much more optimistic. Unlike the Tories, the Republicans have their bastions in the newer parts of the country - the south and the west; the party has flourished among the strip malls and the subdivisions.

[Verginius Rufus]

Bush has "drifted pretty far to the right"? I guess I haven't been paying attention.

Schwarz's book was originally called You Can Trust the Communists (To Do Exactly What They Say) but the irony of the title went over people's heads.