namkcuR said:Just out of curiosity, Earnie, if what you say about Hillary is true, then if you took any of the Republican candidates and dropped them into Australian politics, what exactly would they be considered?
I know the question wasn't directed at me, but I would expect the Republican candidates to best fit in with One Nation and its successor parties (paranoid far right xenophobes) or Family First (far right religious loonies). Maybe one or two, along with Hillary, would slot into the Liberals (mainstream centre-right party) - Hillary into the party's mainstream and the Republicans into the ultra-conservative faction. As for Obama, I can see him in Kevin Rudd's centrist faction of the Labour Party.
With this sort of thing considered, the Republican Party just creeps me the fuck out. I think it's bad enough that a party as far right as the Liberals is one of the main Australian parties - the thought of One Nation and Family First rolled together and having shitloads of power makes me queasy.