He spouts all the rhetoric of a person so desperate for power he could be Hillary Clinton!

In terms of the British political spectrum, Democrats and Republicans seem to be Right and Righter. At the current moment, I think Obama’s policies are actually closer to Cameron’s than they at first appear, since they begin from such different points. If Cameron shrinks our state and lowers our taxes (eventually), and Obama grows the US state and raises their taxes (eventually), we’d probably end up meeting somewhere in the middle.

Of course, there are natural ideological disagreements between Conservatives and Democrats, just as there are between Labour and Democrats and between Conservatives and Republicans, but my gut feeling is that Gordon Brown’s Labour, with it’s ever-more-noticeable socialist leanings, is to the left of any American party, while Cameron sits somewhere between the two.

Of course, I’m not yet a fully versed student of American or British politics. I’m just saying it as I’m seeing it.

if he is, it’s only so he can put a bullet in them…

Obama and Cameron might make an interesting duo. People wouldn’t have said “Obama and Howard”, would they? But the Tories are moving from what seems to have been their flirtation with neoconservatism, and becoming a force to represent the real conservative elements in this country. Not that I’m one of them, but still

I don’t want to have anything to do with American conservatives as they are right now, because in my opinion they are obsessed with military action, have lost control of the biggest economy in the world through complete mismanagement and profligacy and offer little or no solutions on the domestic or international agenda to some really serious problems.

I think Cameron and Obama could offer a very different view of the world than Cameron and McCain.

I recall Michael Gove asserting that as a “right-wing polemicist” he admired Blair. But if he were a Tory, which he appears not to be, he’d be repelled by Blair in general & his Iraq policy in particular, as liberals were.

There is a potential for a non-ideological party of the right, which disowns neoconservatism, to establish itself in America. But it will still be far away from what natural Tories are thinking.