Conservatives racing ahead in EU parliament voting

Can't be. Man on the TV said Europe was also swooning before Obama.

Apparently Europe's experiment in socialism hasn't created the utopia as promised. Obama should take note.

most europeans (and canadians) i have the pleasure of knowing or talk to face to face, acknowledge they are overtaxed and adamantly distrust their elected officials. the swing left and right is cyclical. once Americans begin to realize they are or will be footing the bill to pay for all the socialism the Democrats are promising, the American taxpayer will vote the neo-Coms out. Mid term elections are a little over a year off. The Democrats better hope they have something to show for the trillions they stole from the next generation.

I read so often here on JT that conservative/right supposedly equals racist. So will see good Donkey, Joe Bigs,yabits,susisake,smithinjapan and friends condemning all the "radicals" in Europe for not only turning right but doing so after President Obama was elected by an America that is only 12 percent "black".

There's a big difference between a conservative, and a radical, old friend.

The big winner in Austria was the rightist Freedom Party, which more than doubled its strength over the 2004 elections to 13.1% of the vote. It campaigned on an anti-Islam platform.

Why, I do believe we is lookin at a kind of little Alabama, right thar in the heart a Eu-rope.

Many ignorant people have yet not understood that the political landscape is not 2 dimensioned but multi dimensioned. The “centre-right” and “socialist” blocks that dominate the parliament are artificial alliances. Left-right divisions mean different things in different countries. Nordic social democrats are more gung-ho about globalisation than are many Mediterranean conservatives. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13788340

I can't stop laughing:

"European socialists were left in disarray on Sunday night after failing to capitalise on a historic economic and financial crisis to harvest disaffected voters in parliamentary elections.

"In spite of such seemingly favourable conditions, the socialists fell further behind the parliament’s largest group, the centre-right European People’s party, as voters punished them in key countries, including the UK, while flocking to parties on the far-left and far-right elsewhere.

"Some socialists have even spoken of possibly changing their name to “Democrats”. The thinking is that a different title might help the group, particularly in eastern Europe."

from the Financial Times

Heh. Now I understand why so many Euros and Canadians need to come here and try to tell Americans that conservatism and or the Republican Party are "dead" or "irrelevant."