How does this square with the most recent French, German, and Italian elections? Or Brit for that matter. Each of the newly elected leaders in those countries is far friendlier to the US than their predecessors or opponents.
The US/Bush have been bashed more there than here, hard as that may be to imagine. And, I suspect the polling sample (per the Guardian) is more left leaning than the general populations of those countries (which are pretty left by US standards). It seems the US is the country they love to hate, but want to have their useless backs.
EURO CONSERVATIVES would be considered liberal or moderate Democrats in the US. On issues from the environment to human/civil rights, they are to the left of us.
Comparing a "conservative" in Europe to that of the US is an apples and oranges comparison. American conservatism is rooted in classical liberalism, while that of Europe is an amalgam of Catholic traditionalism and corporatavism, with the occasional neoliberal economic idea thrown in.