Posted on 01/22/2017 8:48:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
France’s Socialists hold the first round of voting in their presidential primary Sunday, with candidates including former prime minister Manuel Valls fighting for relevance as the country veers to the right. […]
The odds will be stacked against the victor, with many polls showing the Socialist candidate will be eliminated in the first round of the presidential election on April 23.
Current projections suggest the election is shaping up as a three-way battle between conservative ex-premier François Fillon, far-right leader Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old ex-economy minister who has also served in the governing Socialist government. …
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Every time the word “far right” is attatched to LePen, I hope that much more that she wins
I’ve seen people on FR say Le Pen isn’t really conservative. To that I say, she is the ONLY candidate who is likely to do anything about Islamic immigration.
Much like, during the primaries, I said that Trump was the only candidate strongly against immigration, and that nothing else mattered if we didn’t put a stop to the demographic transformation of the country.
Amazing how the radical left just keeps making the same mistake OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Don’t know enough about the French government....so wait and see.
Right now there are bigger fish to fry than worrying about where someone is economically.
The same thing has been happening here. Voters will put a stop to it there, the same way we did here. If not now, then soon. And it isn’t just us and Europe, it’s the entire west, including Australia. Well, maybe not South America, but that’s a whole other story.
>>I’ve seen people on FR say Le Pen isn’t really conservative.<<
In Europe obozo himself would be considered rightwing.
Their center is to the left of Soros.
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.The “writers” who confound society with government are today’s socialists.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Journalists in general (who knowingly focus on the negative, yet claim to be objective) are cynical. They are cynical about society, and, concommitantly, naive about the ability of government to improve society.
Heard someone say that before here. No! Collectivism in all its forms is the number one enemy. Yes we need to get rid of Islam but socialists are what can kill western civilization.
Fillon has been hit with some kind of scandal, probably manufactured BS.
That has given an opening to libtard Emmanuel Macron, not from the Socialist Party but from splinter party founded by himself, slightly to the right of the socialists which isn’t saying much.
The latest poll has him edging Fillon and making the runoff v. LePen.
That is TERRIBLE news. Polls show either would crush LePen in the runoff. (and no neither Trump nor Brexit ever trailed by 30 points as she does to Macron in the latest runoff poll)
I have qualms about LePen and would likely back Fillion, but I’d have no choice but to strongly support her over a libtard like Macron.
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