By Harold Wilson's time in the 60s, even despite the Vietnam War, friends of the special relationship were fortunate: Wilson's Foreign Secretaries for most of his tenure were Labour conservatives George Brown and Michael Stewart, whose pro-American sympathies were accepted by an emollient "beer and sandwiches" Premier anxious to maintain peace in a fractious government.
This is a veiled jab at Mr Romney, whose recent conversion to pro-lifery smacks to many of opportunism.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg - whose MPs are mostly pro-European - has warned against using the current crisis to fundamentally redraw the UK's relationship with Europe.
But Mr Blair is not the only pro-war leader whose support is slipping: Mr Bush, too, is feeling some heat in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
Deputy PM Nick Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats are the most pro-European of the three biggest UK parties, has said the eurozone crisis should not be used as a justification to radically alter the UK's relationship with the European Union.
Finally, there's billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, whose website was hacked and pasted with pro-Putin pronouncements just before he announced his candidacy.
Also looming in the next few months is the election by parliament of a (Maronite Christian) president to replace the pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud whose term ends on 25 November.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg - whose Liberal Democrat party is much more pro-European than their coalition colleagues - said he "regretted" that a deal involving all 27 members could not be reached.
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That would also include the pro-Saudi Middle East Institute, whose "adjunct scholar" is one Joseph C Wilson IV.
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The chief face of the pro-Kremlin parties is Mr Putin, whose approval ratings still hover between 70% and 80%.
Casey, the state treasurer, is a pro-gun rights, anti-abortion Democrat whose family name carries weight in Pennsylvania politics.
In Miami, the Dolphins frolic in the Pro Player Stadium, named after an underwear manufacturer whose elastic has snapped.
Gone are the days when Margaret Thatcher was constrained by pro-European big beasts in the cabinet, whose resignation she could ill afford.
Mayor Bing, whose 100th day in office is Wednesday, is a legendary pro basketball Hall of Famer who played nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons.
Lehrman (with whose eponymous Institute this writer professionally is associated) and by (pro-gold) journalist James Grant.
Their leaders were learned and judicious men, a minority whose excellence derived not from popular opinion or emotion but from the Enlightenment and its pro-reason virtues.
Nonsense, says Mr. Kalra, whose group once laid an ambush at a tollgate outside Delhi, jumping out to cover pro-honking signs of what he says were thousands of trucks, buses and other large vehicles with black paint over seven days, resulting in plenty of altercations with drivers.
The pro-bono work allowed the then-23-year-old to help a group whose work she cares about.
Conteders for the high representative job include Ursula Plassnik, a former Austrian foreign minister, Olli Rehn, the Finnish EU commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, whose brilliance is not matched by his popularity in capitals such as Paris (where he is seen as too pro-Turkey) and Berlin (where officials dislike his tough stance on Russia).
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