I would like to become involved in your political debate, however I have no idea what a "Republican" is. I know what a publican is, one of my favorite people someone who runs a pup!
In the UK we have labor, (left) for you American people left (left wing) means communist or nearly communist, labor is the working man's party.
Then you have the liberals, these are halfway between labor and conservative, most of them seem to be gay. I don't know whether they are liberal because they can't make up their minds whether they wanna be labor or conservative, or whether it is just a general trait of their personality, which also manifests itself as not being able to decide if they want to be male or female, So politically they are in the same boat not being able to decide so they take the middle way, Gay....
Then you have conservatives (right) and extreme right, (right wing) are fascists.
So basically our political system is flavored/based around the idea that you have a left and a right, left wing (extreme left) being communism and right wing extreme right being fascism.
Funnily enough, both labor and conservative have sort of moved to the middle ground, there's not been much to choose between them at the moment. Liberals are trying to differentiate themselves by taking a stand on green issues, just what would you expect from a bunch of Fairys really.
I suppose to be fair I should continue the sexual analogy therefore conservatives/fascists are likely to be the NAZI types, with whips and things for beating people. Sadism/fascism sort of go hand in hand. Just think of two SS officers walking along holding hands.
And labor, I can't really think of are sexual analogy, may be wife swapping, brothels, I don't know.