About that time our newsgroup started getting political (this was right around election time, possibly during the recount) and a few people were bashing Bush pretty badly. It's the one time that our newsgroup was not a complete delight to be a part of and fortunately it only lasted a few weeks.
When I read Andrew Ferguson's article on Wodehouse, I wrote to him and told him about our newsgroup and some of the things that people were saying. Among other things, someone was trying to make comparisons between political figures and Wodehouse characters and Bush was getting compared to the worst or dumbest. (Not long before that, Margaret Carlson, I think, compared Bush to Bertie Wooster, but for very uncomplimentary reasons.) I wanted Andrew Ferguson's opinion about Plum's politics because I thought these people were way off base if they thought that Wodehouse would have gone for their politics. He wrote a really nice e-mail back with an explanation of what Wodehouse's politics were in his opinion. He agreed with me that Wodehouse was basically apolitical, but said that he considered him to be a "cottage conservative."
Now that I've read a couple of Wodehouse biographies, I think he probably was tempted by Socialism in his younger days, though perhaps not seriously. By the end of his life I'm sure he was solidly conservative and even used Jeeves to express a pretty strong opinion against the Labor government in one of the Jeeves novels.
Ever given any thought to Wodehouse's politics?