What Kevin said is precisely what I thought. If we take Margaret Thatcher as a yardstick, who many Brits regard as being pretty right-wing, I can't think of a single US administration, with the possible (and only possible) exception of Jimmy Carter's, that I would regard as to the left of Thatcher, and most of them are a long way to the right of her. Even JFK. Don't tempt me to get started on that warmongering charlatan...