<< I'm really curious, what is an American Republican's attitude towards Tony Blair.
On one hand he's without any doubts a loyal ally of President Bush. On the other - he's a lefty. >>
Tony Blair is seen by thinking Americans as the awful bloody clone of the Neo-Axis/NATO Gang's co-founding lying, looting, thieving, mass-murdering Thuggee, Billy-Bubba Blythe-KKli'toon!
He is not seen as the "loyal ally of President Bush" so much as he is correctly acknowledged to stand on the side of Right on just the single issue of America's War on Terror -- and its Iraq Phase.
On every other issue he is just another duplicitous lying, looting thieving, mass-murdering [Serbia] communist lite with a knee under the table of every Euro-peon scam, complicit in the long-ago-already-acomplished surrender of once-great-britain's sovereignty to Brussells' bureaucrats -- and, to boot, as being complicit in every un-and-anti-American criminal UN scheme -- from Kyoto to the "international criminal 'court.'"
And his ain't nothing compared to the old-Labour Party communism of his shadow, Brown, who -- and this despite the assinine attempts at simpleton spinners to manipulate voting figures to pretend they represent otherwise -- more closely represents the anti-Americanism of the British Electorate at large -- and who will very shortly have the skids under Blair -- and the moving van at number ten's door!
The only comment I can make to your statement is at least the old Labour Party (and I am not fan of them) was anti EC as I grew Conservatives were pro Europe and Labour was anti.
Is that how you rememeber it Ivan?