IRON LAW :

British Adopt Iron Law of American Politics (Terence P. Jeffrey, 6/17/02, Human Events)

The Iron Law of American Politics is that the rightward-most candidate in any federal election will be demonized as an extremist by his rivals and by the liberal press.

A corollary is that it doesn't matter how far left the rightward-most candidate sits. If Leon Trotsky were running against Josef Stalin for President of the United States, Stalin would accuse Trotsky of being a rightwing extremist and the New York Times would echo the judgment.

Hence we get stuff like "Rick Lazio : Rightwing Extremist" Posted by Orrin Judd at June 15, 2002 8:21 AM