Nobel Peace Prize, A Leftist Award?

In a comment to an earlier post Travis opined:

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a left-wing award for decades now.

Now I'm never quite clear on what Travis means when he calls things "left-wing", so I decided to look up the last 20-30 years of NPP winners and see if I could winkle out a definition based on Travis' assertion.

2005: Mohamed ElBaradei : "...efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way": No nuclear WMD is, I guess, something only the left likes (does that mean the Right is pro-nuclear WMD?). I thought the left didn't like nuclear power, so I'm confused.

2004:Wangari Muta Maathai : "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Wanting to develop democracy is a left-only attribute. Got it Travis.

2003: Shirin Ebadi : "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children." The Left favors womens voting rights, the RIght must therefore be against them? The right is for repealing the 19th Amendment. Got it.

2002: Jimmy Carter : Point to Travis

2001: Kofi Annan : "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. While I know the Right lothes both the UN and KA, it doesn't follow that the Left must love him. Regardless, another point to Travis.

2000: Kim Dae-jung: "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular": Trying to end the tyranny of one of the "Axis of Evil" nations is a Leftist thing?? Okay, so far we have democracy and ending tyrrany in the Leftist column.

1999: Médecins Sans Frontières : "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents": Because Ayn Rand would have called this kind of compassion weak. I'll accept that compassion is an attribute of the Left.

1998: John Hume , 1/2 of the prize: "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland". Again ending war is a leftist thing. I'm starting to see the pattern. As a point to Travis' argument though, one of the winners does have the words "Social Democratic and Labour Party " in his title.

1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) : "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines": The Left is against landmines leftover from wars. Does that mean the Right is in favor of them? No clearity here.

1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta: "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor". More war-ending do-gooders.

1995: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs,Joseph Rotblat: "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms". Again, this establishes that the Left would be anti-nuke WMD in Travis interpretation.

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin: "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East". Yes, Rabin is a Leftist.

1993: Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk: "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa". More peacenik do-gooders. I'm starting to see the pattern.

1992: Rigoberta Menchú Tum : "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples". Social Justice??? Sounds Leftish to me.

1991: Aung San Suu Kyi : "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights". Non-violent struggle is obviously a Left-only trait.

1990: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev: "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" Communist!!! Wait didn't Reagan.... ???

1989: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) : Anti-Catholic do gooder.

1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces : Because only the Left stands for Peace.

1987: Oscar Arias Sánchez :"for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year": Again, peace making, do -gooder.

1986: Elie Wiesel : All your jews are belong to us.

So, if I take Travis at his literal word, the Left stands for democracy, peace making, the enfranchisement of minorities and generally raising the world to a more coopertive place, while eliminating the proliferation of nuclear weapons to thrid world countries.

Got it.

I can live with that.