Matthew Steeples asks: “Where does the victory of Obama leave the right?”
In the UK, David Cameron’s Conservative Party failed to secure a victory in 2010 and a wishy-washy coalition followed. It’s been a blessed nuisance and a disaster. In the US it’s a little different but Obama’s victory today more than anything else leaves an uncertain future for the Republicans.
Like him or loathe him, George W. Bush stood for something. He might not have been the brightest spark but he hit the nail on the head as and when he felt it necessary. The man who attempted to be his successor, John McCain, was more like a rotten fencepost and with Sarah Palin as sidekick, every time he got hit, he just sank further into the mire.
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A wet kipper
UKIP’s “big announcement” was nothing but a big disappointment UKIP made a song and a dance about a sorry cabal of defectors in the run up to David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday and they promised a “big announcement” prior to the evening’s news headlines. All they produced, in reality, was […]
Wally of the Week: David Cameron
David Cameron should not have gone surfing; he should have recalled Parliament David Cameron did the right thing in returning to London in the wake of the execution of the journalist James Foley by a British jihadi. Just as President Obama did in heading off to play golf, Cameron took exactly the wrong course of […]
Mitt Romney allegedly brought a new era with him when he became leader of the Republican Party but he made the classic mistake of all politicians: he failed to pay attention to history. For that reason and for that alone, he’s now part of it. We have to ask: “Where on earth will the Republicans go next?”
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