Britain's Choice  Cal Thomas  5/4/2010 12:01:00 AM - Cal Thomas
Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat candidate for prime minister and
the Susan Boyle of British politics, said something during the
first debate on April 15 that resonated with the British public
and will be familiar to American tea party activists. Channeling
the late Alabama Governor George Wallace, Clegg said basically
that there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between Labour
and the Conservative Party and that both parties had tried for
40 years to fix the nation's problems -- and failed. Clegg asked
for Britain to try something new: him.  Clegg became "the man of
the moment," as one BBC "presenter" called him, but it appears
cooler -- or at least traditional -- heads are prevailing and
David Cameron's Conservative Party is likely to win a majority
of parliamentary seats in Thursday's election. Whether that
majority is sufficient to avoid a "hung Parliament" is the
question.  If Cameron becomes prime minister with a sufficient
parliamentary maj