The Best Conservative President Since Bill Clinton

Bruce Bartlett picks up the meme. And he reminds us how many conservatives, in moments of rare candor, have agreed with that thesis over the past few years. Obama reminds me of a one-nation Tory, refitted for the austerity era. David Cameron would fit very easily into his cabinet, and vice-versa. But then I've always insisted on that from the get-go. Yes, he is a liberal redistributionist in theory (if not in practice). But when the country is careening toward Chile-like social inequality, that too is understandable as a Tory instinct.