This new phenomenon of British conservatives joining up to help Kerry beat President Bush is not limited to the predictable spineless media elite. (One must remember that sixty years ago the British media joyfully endorsed Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler.)
Conservative MP Alan Duncan has said he is prepared to work for the Democrat campaign of John Kerry to prevent a second Bush term in the White House. This British Conservative “constitutional affairs” spokesman says he feels that Neo-Conservatives such as Defense secretary Mr Rumsfeld are making the world a "more dangerous place" because of the way they are dealing with the threat from international terrorism.
Meanwhile another Tory MP, Simon Burns, said he too supports Mr Kerry's bid to win power. "I am probably a bit of an aberration in the Conservative Party in that I have always identified with the Democrats, but there may be a shift of emphasis going on in our attitude to the current administration."
Earlier this year, George Osborne, a Conservative member of Parliament, took a straw poll of legislators from his party. The subject was President Bush. The results were not pretty. "George Bush scares the hell out of me," one Tory said, according to an article by Mr. Osborne. Another told him: "Bush is a man who might wail at the moon. I don't feel comfortable with him." A third said that while he would vote for Bush in November if he could, "I think Anglo-American relations would be better if Kerry won."
This was long before the liberal feeding frenzy over Abu Ghraib. And the people Mr. Osborne polled were all Conservatives, by tradition and temperament the Republican Party's natural friends across the Atlantic.
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