Having drifted rightward politically, he was chosen as an adviser to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Partisan Review, the house organ for a generation of American intellectuals and writers, ceased publishing in April after 66 years, having drifted rightward from its anti-Stalinist origins.
The left side is devoted to fruit desserts, the right to chocolate, and it's understandable if eyes tend to drift rightward.
Some longtime deans of the Republican establishment, like Brent Scowcroft, the two-time national security adviser, believe the party as a whole has drifted rightward.
Israelis have generally drifted rightward after the failure of two rounds of peace talks, in 2000 and 2008, and Netanyahu has become increasingly reliant on a far-right coalition of parties.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Democratic Party drifted rightward and toward an increasingly powerful and financially focused business community, creating the Democratic Leadership Council, an olive branch of sorts to corporate America.
In 2012, the Obama re-election campaign faced a similar target in Mitt Romney, who had drifted rightward as he moved from governor of liberal-leaning Massachusetts to a conservative firebrand.
We have seen plenty of examples around the world where religious fundamentalists capitalized on the economic failure of the secularists but once in power they drifted rightward leaving the country more divided.
While there's no doubt that Bush would be a formidable candidate in 2016, not least because he would likely have much of the party establishment behind him, including many of the big-time donors (along with the likes of Karl Rove, who organizes those donors), there's also no doubt, I think, that the party will continue to drift rightward with or without Romney in the White House.
Party president Tim Farron does not subscribe to the portrait of the Lib Dems as a divided party, drifting ever rightward and losing good people on the left".
