Party at the wrong house

I was looking online at a story about British political campaign posters, and noticed something interesting. Their political parties seem better labeled than ours. Well, mostly. They have a "Conservative" party, and that makes sense. Conservative folks would probably fit in there. They have a "Liberal Democrat" party, and I'm sure Obama fans would fit in there. I don't know what the "Labour" party is, probably the "left-of-center" party, I guess. But anyhow, those other two parties leave no doubt as to their direction. I like the names.

Now look at us. We got a "Democratic" that's as statist as you can get. They should proudly wear red, but have blue instead. They do have the right animal, though. The Republicans, I'm not sure how they got the red. They'd be much better off in blue. Also, "Republican" best describes the smothering socialist juggernaut envisioned by those of the "D" persuasion.

I suggest we could make things easier for us and future demonstrations if the two parties simply traded places. Let the individual-rights limited-limited government pro-development folks be the blue "Democrats". Let the statists, the socialists, the "government knows best" crowd drape themselves in crimson and be the "Republicans" as they look to big government to be their savior.

With that done, we might have something close to the clarity of the "Conservatives" and "Liberal Democrats" of our distant relatives across the Atlantic.