Jerome has had a different take on the CDU, that they will be moderate but will stay "European", which has been somewhat reassuring...but I'm a bit paranoid... "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
What the CDU already says about its standing on issues is bad enough: back to nuckear, categoric no to Turkey, business-friendly (even if not explained in detail) reform, some more police state measures.
Now I don't think they will rush off like the Bushies, I just don't see them that ideological. They seem more impressed by the methods of neocon power than neocon goals, if they go along (and how far they go along) it's more of a serving of big business than revolutionary zeal. (For example, recently they reneged previous pleas to discontinue the environmental tax, citing budget crisis as reason.) But what they'll do will be significant damage anyway, I fear. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.