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French elections : neoconservative revolution says French journalist
My blog ^ | 04 22 2007 | drzz

Posted on 04/21/2007 4:58:54 PM PDT by drzz

The French conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, presented by Frontpagemag.com as "the best chance for America", is currently ahead in the polls.

What made his success is his strong stands in complex issues like immigration, foreign policy and economy.

More interesting, Sarkozy copied most of the successful campaign of George W. Bush in 2004.

Last week, he said that the coming elections "will be about values". Like Bush said in 2004.

Asking about America, Sarkozy declared "I'm a friend of the United States even if we can disagree on some issues. I don't forget that they were there to help us when we needed so much."

About Iran : "I won't respect Ahmadinejad because he has been elected. Hitler was also elected."

And the last, Sarkozy appeared Friday on a horse, copying the "cow-boy style" which is typical among American conservatives.

This same Friday, a journalist of the conservative french paper "Le Figaro" wrote that France "is witnessing a neoconservative revolution, saluted by the people. Like it happens in America in the 1980's, French people wish to return to the values, to the basic distinction between Good and Evil, to the love of a national identity. (...) To the greatest anger of the left, Sarkozy's remark that "the French origins are undoubtely Christians" could give him the victory."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bush; europe; france; wot
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1 posted on 04/21/2007 4:58:57 PM PDT by drzz
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To: drzz

When do the polls open tomorrow?
I sincerely hope for the best for France in the upcoming election.

Do you have any prognostications on the outcome of tomorrow’s elections?


2 posted on 04/21/2007 5:04:23 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Sarkozy, a teetotaler like Bush, is the most pro-American of the top candidates. He admires the "energy and fluidity" of Americans but says their "messianic side ... can be tiresome." Critics hounded him for meeting Bush last September; former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius called Sarkozy Bush's "lapdog." That sort of unease with U.S. power means no French president can cozy up to Washington. In a poll last December, 75 percent of respondents said they want their next president to keep a distance from U.S. foreign policy; just 25 percent said the allies' stances should be similar.

Sarkozy says he would not support any military action to force Iran to give up its nuclear program, and he wants "to go as far as possible with sanctions." He says Chirac was right not to join the war in Iraq and that the hanging of Saddam Hussein was a "mistake," even though he was "the worst of men." Sarkozy also does not want Turkey to join the European Union.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/21/international/i011040D51.DTL&type=politics

3 posted on 04/21/2007 5:08:44 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: Army Air Corps

Amen, brother. AMEN!!

Maybe now they’ll allow our aircraft to overfly their airspace.


4 posted on 04/21/2007 5:12:07 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Army Air Corps; drzz
Do you have any prognostications on the outcome of tomorrow’s elections?

My prediction: bombs will detonate in the Paris public transit system, with hundreds dead and wounded; al-Qaeda will proclaim the French will have more on the way for supporting the Great Satan; and the Leftists will be voted inr by a landslide.

The same way as Madrid.

5 posted on 04/21/2007 5:14:58 PM PDT by Old Sarge (+ /_\)
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To: secretagent

Sarkozy is the most pro-american of the French candidates, that’s true.

But France is one of the most stupid country of the Western civilization.

The mix gives you Sarkozy, a pro-american not so “pro”, an anti-islamofascism not so “anti” and a pro-west not so “pro”.

As said neocon French university professor Guy Millière, a friend of mine, former adviser of Ronald Reagan and personal
friend of David Horowitz, Tony Blankley, Norman Podhoretz and William Kristol, Sarkozy is not the best candidate.

He is the only one not entirely catastrophic.


6 posted on 04/21/2007 5:16:05 PM PDT by drzz
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To: Army Air Corps

My pronostics : Sarkozy 30%, and Segolène Royal 23-25%.

The rest is useless to notice.


7 posted on 04/21/2007 5:16:59 PM PDT by drzz
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To: drzz

That compares well with other polls that I have seen. Some give Segolène Royal as little as 19%, but your guess is quite reasonable.


8 posted on 04/21/2007 5:20:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: drzz

Yes, I’m inclined to agree with you. He’s far better than the others, but there’s a lot of doubt whether he’s good enough. Unless he hits the ground running and starts expelling Muslims the day after he is elected, he will fail. And I doubt whether he has the guts to do that.


9 posted on 04/21/2007 5:22:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Old Sarge

As an European, when Spain retreated from Iraq, I nearly died of anger.


10 posted on 04/21/2007 5:23:05 PM PDT by drzz
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To: drzz
He is the only one not entirely catastrophic.

That is one of the funniest quotes that I have seen in a long time.

Who would you have wanted to see as a candidate? That is to say, who, in your opinion, would have been a better choice?
11 posted on 04/21/2007 5:23:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Cicero

Who in Western Europe does have such courage? Any who do would be pilloried in the press.


12 posted on 04/21/2007 5:24:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: drzz

Merci pour votre blog.

I have added it to my Favourites list.


13 posted on 04/21/2007 5:28:09 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: drzz

Intriguingly, at one time both the area now known as Iraq and Spain were essentially part of the same country.


14 posted on 04/21/2007 5:28:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Army Air Corps
The stupid left published a poll just 90 minutes before the official end of the elections -when no polls can be published until the result (stupid French law about elections)- showing Le Pen rising to 16.5%, behind Royal (25.5%) and Sarkozy (26.5%). This poll is the only one to see so little margin between Royal and Sarkozy. The time of its appearance makes me feel it is a fake, another product of the totalitarian liberalism made in France..

The French left is trying to make people fear another disaster like the one of 2002 when extremist Le Pen reached the second round. If people fear Le Pen, they abandon democracy and vote for anybody but him.

That’s the great French democracy...

15 posted on 04/21/2007 5:28:37 PM PDT by drzz
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To: Army Air Corps; All

Thank you sir.

WATCH MY VIDEOS :

To support America and her military personal :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-w116jnL7Y

To kick the ass of the Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_K0jFvF60

To support the courageous people who stand up against islam :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mCAfoKOLk


16 posted on 04/21/2007 5:32:07 PM PDT by drzz
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To: Old Sarge
My prediction: bombs will detonate in the Paris public transit system, with hundreds dead and wounded;

If memory serves me correct, in Madrid the bombs went off a few days before the election so to let the anger pass and fear settle in

AQ is a little late if they plan to use the same MO

17 posted on 04/21/2007 5:34:55 PM PDT by Popman (New American Dream: Move to Mexican, cross the border, become an illegal. free everything)
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To: Army Air Corps

The real deal here is not who is the best candidate to run France. French people have been taken liberal drugs fro so much time that they actually cannot recover before decades.

Did you know 10% of the French people, the employees of the sate, are better paid, have better salaries, have better situations when they retire, they work only 35 hours a week and still they are the one who complain and stop working the most to demonstrate (about 100 days of work each year for professors )?

And the 90% of other citizen don’t complain. They even support the demonstrators and their “social” events !

This country is crazy. People are crazy.

So how do you want to find a reasonable president to govern mad people ?


18 posted on 04/21/2007 5:37:24 PM PDT by drzz
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To: drzz
Well, your blog is another means of preventing my French language skills from degrading too much. I have tried reading some papers online such as Le Matin, but I became nauseous. I have read Le Figaro from time to time.
19 posted on 04/21/2007 5:38:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: drzz
So how do you want to find a reasonable president to govern mad people?

Good point!
20 posted on 04/21/2007 5:41:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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