Mr Carter may be no more than a cuddly old joke to many conservatives nowadays.
Moreover, Mr Major also inherited the poll tax, the product of his predecessor's attempt to reform local-government finance, which had young rebels on the streets and old rebels deserting the Conservatives in droves.
It is clear that Mr Graham has felt most comfortable with conservatives of the old, pre-Moral Majority stamp.
Livingston's candidacy, only two days old, already has divided conservatives.
Passing the law of restitution - of which the citizenship offer forms a part - was controversial in Spain, where opposition conservatives complained the legislation reopened old wounds.
Conservatives tend to go to war for old-fashioned causes, such as the nation's interests or (as in the Falklands) its sovereignty.
The Conservatives have chosen 28-year-old Maurice Golden, an environmental campaign manager for Keep Scotland Beautiful, while businessman Harry Wills will run for the Liberal Democrats.
The Obamacons are manifestations of a deeper turmoil in the Republican rank-and-file, as the old coalition of small-government activists, social conservatives and business Republicans falls apart.
Horizontal politics means the bad old ways: Democrat versus Republican, or liberals against conservatives.
The Conservatives counter by saying that the new schools would have to abide by the old admissions rules, with no interviewing of applicants and no preference for able students.
The Conservatives will be hopeful of holding on to Monmouth, and Neil Kinnock s old seat of Islwyn is a key Labour target seat, as the party strives to win an overall majority.
For the Conservatives, George Osborne said Mr Darling was "proving quite a defender of the old model of finance".
The Conservatives also thought that they could claim some credit, pointing out that a 15-year-old will have spent most of his educational career benefiting from their policies before 1997.
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