Yet he risks finding himself trapped by the relentlessly rightward path he has adopted.
The Belgians' rightward trend was matched next-door in tiny Luxembourg, which also had a general election.
All of this was, in some sense, a move rightward, and all of it strengthened the state.
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They worry about the government's rightward drift on social and economic policy: Blairisation, they glumly call it.
Mr Hatch is not the only Republican grandee to have shifted nimbly rightward.
Although irked at Mr Cardoso's rightward shift, Mr Covas always backed him when difficult reforms needed to be passed.
How lucky, then, for young Burnham to be alive in the 1990s and possessed of an extremely rightward Bell Curve IQ.
All this coincides with a general rightward shift in young people's views.
He told reporters that he was reading David Frum and Ross Douthat, two conservative writers at odds with the rightward drift of the Party.
Mr Frankel was rewarded with Mr Oakes's job and then, after he had shifted the paper rightward to the middle-ground, with the editor's chair.
And the broad thrust of Mr Clegg's leadership has been rightward.
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Had he run with these, or offered compelling alternatives, Labour would look unusually vital for an old government and the Tories would be tempted rightward.
If Ryan is trying to shift the debate rightward, then the Democrats should play tug-o-war, not just capitulate and let Republicans once again set the stage.
Barring a disastrous revelation or blunder, Mitt Romney will be a more formidable opponent than many assumed during his rightward lurch to secure the Republican nomination.
It was clear in the early 1990s that a rightward shift was Labour's only path to power, but there may be two when it next enters opposition.
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What's more, the rightward cast of many Democrats in the freshman class is hardly bad news for conservativism ... leadership is never weakened by a little humility.
He would simply fall over to his left, unless his body curved rightward to ensure his combined centre of gravity remained within the area defined by his feet.
He turned the Church rightward back to its orthodox roots.
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But, from my dealings with black conservatives, I can tell you that -- for many of them -- their rightward drift began as a reaction to the condescension on the left.
But there was something inevitable about his rightward slide.
The immigration question offers the GOP an opportunity to really demonstrate to the electorate that this is a party capable of change and that the rightward drift of the party can be reversed.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party got the most votes in Israel's national election Tuesday, but a respectable showing by centrists could slow or halt a rightward swing in the government.
Still, after the election, with the Republican Party racing rightward, Ryan provided an intellectual blueprint: there were eighty-seven Republican freshmen who wanted to starve the government but had no clear idea how to do so.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was organizing a major conference in the United States, in an effort to re-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and her initiative had provoked consternation among many rightward-leaning American Jews and their Christian evangelical allies.
Two years later, Ryan went to work as a speechwriter and policy analyst for Jack Kemp, who led Empower America, an organization then in the vanguard of making policy for supply-side conservatives who were pushing Republicans rightward in their views on taxes and the size of government.
Powell, a former secretary of state for President Bush as well as a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Sunday he decided, in part, to back Obama because he was troubled by the rightward direction the Republican party had taken in recent years.
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