Can someone explain to RTE, the Irish Times, etc. that President Bush is no more governing from the "extreme right" than Bill Clinton governed from the "extreme left"? It's completely illogical to presume that more than 50% of the American population are at the extreme right. If President Bush were governing from the "extreme right" he'd have won an extremist's percentage of the vote.
President Bush is NOT Jean-Marie le Pen, who managed only 18% of the vote in the French Presidential election.
The centers in the mythical "left-right" divide are not the same in the US and Ireland, but that doesn't excuse the extremist Irish media from trotting out the label "extreme right" for President Bush.
