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Spain's ruling Socialists suffer big election loss (biggest defeat in 30 years)
Forbes ^ | 5/22/2011 | AP

Posted on 05/22/2011 2:46:39 PM PDT by PapaBear3625

MADRID -- Spain's ruling Socialist party has suffered a bruising defeat to conservatives in the municipal leg of elections and looked headed to suffer big losses in regional government races as well.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: socialism; spain
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To: John123

No, they all had jobs when Franco was in power.


21 posted on 05/22/2011 3:23:03 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: PapaBear3625

Another bunch of socialists runs out of other peoples money to spend on windmills. Something poetic about that. Remember this is the only bunch of folks who had a civil war and both sides lost-—wound up with a dicklesstator for 3, 4 decades. Maybe they’ll get together and start another crusade-—it must be the Jews fault? Or maybe they’d like to invade the western hemisphere again? They can’t even run a good bullfight anymore so there’s nothing to do but watch them learn the hard way——sorta like US.


22 posted on 05/22/2011 3:24:02 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Army Air Corps
The government recently cut civil service pay and retirement, the strikes and set ins are union sponsored. But the market forced the cuts, Europe is flat ass broke.
23 posted on 05/22/2011 3:27:07 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Texas Fossil
UnAmerican Activities investigation.

They damn well better if they know what's good for them.

24 posted on 05/22/2011 3:37:50 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Nov2010 - Historic Conservative victory in US
Apr2011 - Historic Conservative victory in Canada
May2011 - Historic Conservative victory in Spain

Appears we have a global “Conservative Spring” happening!


25 posted on 05/22/2011 3:40:51 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: PapaBear3625
The little shoemaker is very upset and has told his best buddy “Coma-dante” Castro that there will be a lot less money to steal with Conservatives coming to power. May it kill the bastard?? :) From here it looks like we could have ourselfs a twoffer.
26 posted on 05/22/2011 3:41:41 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: WellyP

My big hope is that with municipal governments out of socialist hands, it would be harder for socialists to steal the national election next year.


27 posted on 05/22/2011 3:44:34 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The socialist are like AQ in that they try and get money any way they can from evil ones, so it will take some hefty nads and smarts to keep the commies away—send them back to whence they came. Secure our borders. Farm our land, feed our people. Drill for our oil. No more China crap. No more dependency on other lands for oil.

They can not just show up. They will have to do there job of saving America and the land of the free—FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE FREE, not the dems, not the muzzies, not the commies. They want to rule everything about our lives. NO WAY!


28 posted on 05/22/2011 3:44:59 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
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To: newfreep

19 Jan 2010 - Historic Conservative victory in Chile


29 posted on 05/22/2011 3:45:13 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: PapaBear3625

And socialism fails one more time. Pity, they did such a good job of sucking up to Al Qaeda.


30 posted on 05/22/2011 3:52:20 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: PapaBear3625

No terrorist attach to rile the sheeple this time.


31 posted on 05/22/2011 3:57:07 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (I asked the bartender for a bin Ladin, she said 'what's that? I said 'two shots then a splash.')
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To: org.whodat
No, they all had jobs when Franco was in power.

Not sure what your point is. Franco was a big government socialist.

32 posted on 05/22/2011 4:05:08 PM PDT by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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To: screaminsunshine; All

Isolationism will only work if the stockholders of US companies force the upper echelons to cut back on their huge salaries, and bring the jobs back from overseas that were sent there so they could overpay themselves without angering the stockholders.

Personal example: Ten years ago or thereabouts my GE stock was selling around $50 a share. Then it dropped all the way down to $5 in 2008. Since then it has risen and is hovering around $20. In 2010 I studied my GE financial report and saw that for the previous 3 years the top 7 executives had salaries of from $11 to $22 million. There was NO dip at all for 2008. Then they had the gall to recommend that I and all the other stockholders vote AGAINST a Taxholders Advisory on Executive Compensation. Needless to say I ignored their advice!!! If you want to see how bad it is, at Google enter Forbes CEO Compensation.


33 posted on 05/22/2011 4:11:25 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: John123

Oh for goodness sakes Mr john 123.
If Franco was a big government socialist what on earth were the Stalin backed Communists that he literally fought to the death?


34 posted on 05/22/2011 4:13:07 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: John123

Did you live in Spain when Franco was alive???? I did!!!! He was not a socialist????? Dictator yes, socialist no!!!!


35 posted on 05/22/2011 4:13:38 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: John123
Define "conservatives" in Spain.

Generalisimo Franco


36 posted on 05/22/2011 4:17:27 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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To: John123
Franco was a big government socialist.

A man who led a revolution against a Communist cabal and left the country with a constitutional monarchist government was "a big government socialist"?

Really???!!!

37 posted on 05/22/2011 4:18:59 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: newfreep
Appears we have a global “Conservative Spring” happening!

The True Finns won big gains in Finland a few weeks back, going from a marginal party to third place. Their vow that they would vote NO on any further bailouts meant that the other parties joined together to keep them out of the ruling coalition.

Now Spain. Latest AP

In what Spanish media said was the worst performance on record by the Socialist Party in local and regional elections, the numbers reflecting the loss were stunning: the conservative Popular Party won at the municipal level by about two million votes, compared to 150,000 in its win in 2007, and in 13 regional governments that were up for grabs, Zapatero's party lost in virtually all of them.

One was Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain, where the Socialists have always held power. The Socialists also lost bastions like the town halls in Barcelona and Seville. The conservatives padded their majorities in Madrid and Valencia, in the latter even though the president is under investigation for corruption. Several other Socialist-controlled regional governments also fell. Spain's electoral map turned largely blue - the color of the Popular Party.

The socialists lost in the municipal and state elections, with national elections next year.
38 posted on 05/22/2011 4:24:54 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: gleeaikin

I am for it. Bring the Military home and close the borders while we rebuild America. Cut out the Global Trade Scam. We traded our jobs for nothing so the Global Companies could make money. We do not need the WTO, Nafta, UN, Or any Globaloney.


39 posted on 05/22/2011 4:29:06 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Hey zero, here this? Sizing your orange jumpsuit right now!


40 posted on 05/22/2011 4:33:40 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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