Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
As for Hore Tore's comment that the Republicans are one small-step left of the Norwegian Nazi party and the Democrats are two small steps left... . If it makes you feel better to make disparaging statements like that, chief, be my guest, but I noticed you didn't link any sort of issues-analysis to your conclusion. Last I checked, free market != Nazi.....
The downside of having the one-dimentional left-right wing scale. There isn't any party that are generally simular to the republicans in Scandinavia, and the closest one to the Democrats is generally the rightmost larger right-wing party. This gets even more complicated of that classical liberals (aka US libertarians) is considered to be in the middle (although the "pure" ones isn't exactly the strongest faction in the party, wouldn't work).

Makes for a nice mess on deciding how US parties fits in at the Scandinavian scale.

There's considered to be a very large jump between our conservatives and the small radical parties on the right though, but there isn't really a room for a republican party here, not without decades of conservative rule before that.