Former leader Lord Ashdown, who is running the party's election campaign, said the Lib Dems would not have a "formal deal" with a party that would "break up the United Kingdom, or indeed, with a party that would take our country out of Europe and would plunge us into appalling right wing policies and mountains of cuts".
He won with a very right-wing policy agenda.
What it is not, however, is a mandate for right-wing policy.
The proposals were shepherded by the State Policy Network, a coalition of groups that act as incubators of right-wing policy at the state level.
Many conservatives have urged him to rebrand himself with primary voters by embracing a more rigorously right-wing policy agenda – endorsing Paul Ryan's budget more explicitly, outlining a more aggressively supply-side approach to tax policy or even a pure flat tax, echoing furious attacks on the Federal Reserve by Ron Paul and Gingrich, and so on.
The law, which supposedly protects citizens who kill in self-defence, was created not at the behest of concerned Florida citizens, but by the gun lobby, the National Rifle Association NRAa), a powerful right-wing policy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and a handful of pliant politicians.
ANDREW SPRUNG South Orange, N.J., May 28 , 2011To the Editor: Joe Nocera's recommendation that we use Representative Paul D. Ryan's Medicare plan "as a launching off point for a serious debate" would present us with the same problem we've had since the start of the Obama presidency: We begin with an extreme right-wing policy position, then try to negotiate our way back to sanity.
Supports right-wing policy via Heritage Foundation.
Aids in the dissemination of right-wing policy via think tank Heritage Foundation; also bankrolls Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
All in all, it's the most profoundly right-wing policy prescription the nation has seen in decades.
"I think the distinction between right-wing policy and left-wing policy is now clear and this is a better starting point for the next elections," she said.
