Posted on 07/01/2012 7:34:47 PM PDT by rovenstinez
Before Midnight Mexico will announce the new President who will serve for the next 6 years. This ought to be of special interest to many people in the USA, especially those on the border states.
I realize neither are good choices, but between the two, who should US conservatives root for to win?
The one that will keep Mexico’s criminal element IN Mexico!
Thank goodness we all know that the Mexican voting process is completely incorruptible, and all the voting officials would never take a dime of the drug cartel bribes; thus ensuring the best possible selection of the candidates on the ballot.
Why, if it were any different, Mexico might have a chance to pull themselves up and stop being a parasite to the rest of America.
All it takes for evil to prevail, is for good people to do nothing = and Mexico is chock full of good people who do absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.
I’m sure they don’t have to show an id to vote, right?
Build the fence!
Silly me, of course they do: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-22/mexico-national-voter-ID-cards/52779410/1
Contray to what every you can imagine, you’ve heard or been told. The Mexican Electoral process has several safety measures. You DO have to have picture I.D, a voter’s card, your number MUST show up at the precinct where you were registered. The ballot boxes are all clear plastic, you can see that there aren’t ballots already IN THE BOX they take video shots before, have judges from each party to watch that the rules are carried out. Then a silver nitrate solution is put on your thumb so you can’t vote again, and a hole punched in your ID that says you’ve voted. I think it’s FAR better than any thing I’ve seen in the USA. I was at one time registered to vote in the General election in 3 states. There are many loop holes and ways to commit fraud in the US, but no so easy here in Mexico. Facts are stubborn things, said John Adams.
Those IDs are a real hoot from what I understand. You can have any name, birthdate, etc put on them that you want on them. All you need is to have two people who already have a card vouch for who you are and when you were born. LOL! Good stuff.
Probably in Mexico, just like in the USA, requiring a photo ID to vote is part of a conspiracy to suppress voting by Hispanics.
Judging by the 2000 and 2006 presidential election results in Mexico, if a bunch of freepers and media pundits tell us that the PAN candidate is "friend of America" and a "rock solid conservative", that means (s)he is a big government socialist, gun grabbing, soft-on-crime, open borders, Democrat-loving statist.
Both sides are puppets for the drug cartels...
Send the Marines and kill all of them.
Well, one of them is the local Gore soreloserman, a Chavez wannabe. The other is just a regular inept.
Thanks for explaining that about voting in Mexico. I always appreciate when Freepers share actual experience with something.
The PAN candidate is a has-been who went in hours late on her own rally. Her latest Lysistrata ploy has not been well received. I’m surprised she’s still on pair with the Gore mini-me.
Phillipe Cabron = joto
Enrique Puto Nieto = joto
Yo habla Espaniol muy, muy buen...
My spelling ain’t so good in Spanish, but I think you get the idea...
Ours?
I do hope they mean theirs.
It sounds like the communist party that had power for 71 years and was kicked out 12 years ago is going to win.
WTF is wrong with people, and why in the living hell is left wing radicalism making a comeback all around the globe?
There are three major parties in Mexico: PAN, PRI, and PRD. I don’t know why people keep referring to the race as “the two candidates” when it’s a 3-way race. PAN is the allegedly “conservative” party, and Mexico has been run by a “conservative” government for the last 12 years. If Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon are what “conservative” means in Mexico, then good riddance, they’ve been nothing but a thorn in our side. Ironically, many of the public policy issues where Mexico really is conservative, like restrictive abortion laws, were passed under the previous, “liberal” PRI government. They’re ultra-corrupt but I really don’t think they stand for anything except winning elections. And the third party, PRD, are a bunch of screwy commies who came THISCLOSE (less than 1%) from winning the 2006 election. “Conservative” Calderon pulled off a victory instead, and went on to screw America for the last six years.
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