PM Blair's "Third Way" has been popular with many in the U.S. ever since Pinochet invented it for Chile's economic revival.
...That PM Blair stood strong by the U.S. while the French and Germans were backstabbing us internationally -- further enhances PM Blair's standing in the U.S.
As a Labour leader, PM Blair is supposed to be a socialist, and as a center-rightest, PM Chirac in France is supposed to be a free market capitalist...yet one might go astray applying those labels willy-nilly.