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April 20, 2007

Frogs Go to the Polls; Pro-American Sarkozy Current Favorite

Via AP:

Voters narrow a field of 12 to two favorites who reach the runoff May 6, and only conservative, pro-American Nicolas Sarkozy seems certain to make that cut.
Suspense will hang heavy over the day of national reflection starting Friday at midnight, when all candidates and polling agencies fall silent after an often cacophonous campaign.
Polls suggest Sarkozy's challenger will be Socialist Segolene Royal, an unconventional leftist determined to be the first woman in France's top job...
Sarkozy once sounded like a determined free-market reformer, ready to shake France up from top to bottom. But in recent months he tempered his talk about a "rupture" with the past and has watered down tax-cut plans. A lifelong anti-communist and son of a Hungarian immigrant, he even quoted a Marxist philosopher...
But the campaign focus never stayed on jobs, instead switching to school choice, trashing the European Central Bank and taxing the rich, then to cracking down on youth rampaging in a Paris train station.
In recent weeks, the most enduring campaign theme was French identity.
Sarkozy proposed a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity, which critics said smacked of Nazi-style racism and was a nod to Le Pen's anti-immigrant electorate. Royal's flag-waving call sparked extended debate in the media over what it means to be French.

Posted by: Ragnar at 02:07 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 Maybe they will start to put 'freedom fries' on the menu over there as well.

USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 20, 2007 05:11 PM (2OHpj)

2 I'm curious as to how many Le Pen voters will actually support Sarkozy in a runoff against Royal. Anybody have some insight on this point?

Posted by: wooga at April 20, 2007 05:48 PM (t9sT5)

3 The French as a nation are to cowardly to vote Sarkozy into office. Better to bow and scrape. Besides you know damn good and well that the muslim scum will riot and burn and rape. Their normal solution to not giving in to them.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 20, 2007 08:10 PM (E6u6Q)

4 Sarkozy . . .geeeez, perhaps that'll do. Whatever became of Phillippe de Villiers?

Posted by: heroyalwhyness at April 20, 2007 08:42 PM (MAPKL)

5 Sarkozy probably as a foreigner he can lead the frogs to self respect like that other foreigner (Napleon) did.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 21, 2007 09:42 AM (oChhC)

6 Good luck to him, for it's painfully evident that France is about to go down the drain. Not that that'd especially be a great shame or anything, but it'll facilitate others being pitched down the same route and give fresh impetus to the perpetrators, who shan't be named, mostly because it's obvious who they are.

Posted by: Infidelsalwayswin at April 24, 2007 02:30 PM (zyFYz)

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