It's a browncoat revolution.
Posted on 11/27/2016 5:36:53 PM PST by goldstategop
With virtually all the results counted, Mr Fillon won Sunday's run-off with nearly 67% of the vote.
Mr Fillon promised to build a fairer society, saying France wants "truth and it wants action".
He is likely to face a Socialist candidate and the far-right's Marine Le Pen in next April's election.
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The result brought him one step closer to winning the French presidential election next year.
It's a browncoat revolution.
Le Pen is not far right. She is very close to Bernie. She is a nationalist and a populist. But she is not conservative by any means.
Is he willing to perform an immediate halt to Muslim immigration? If not, then don’t call him conservative.
Only Le Pen seems likely to be willing to do what needs to be done.
Right now, the only definition of “conservative” which is relevant is “willing to do whatever is necessary to preserve France’s Western culture, and stop the creeping Islamization”
Nothing else matters right now. Nothing at all.
I’d take Marine Le Pen over any so-called conservative party candidate. They make the GOP look like men...almost.
Fillon is a social conservative and an admirer of Margaret Thatcher’s economic policies.
Impressive win in a country that looks down on Anglo-Saxon notions.
It all matters nothing as long as Muslims pour into Western Europe.
Is he willing to stop this and deport the Islamofascists? Or is he scared of being disliked by Globalists and their media minions
Is he on record as being willing to act to stop Islamization of France, by whatever means necessary?
If not, then it doesn’t matter how economically conservative he is. Within a generation, France will be an Islamic state under Sharia.
Each of the main contenders in this year’s primary race published books in the course of the campaign, an exercise typically meant to burnish candidates’ reputations and to convey the general outlines of their platforms. While the titles of Sarkozy’s and Juppé’s books were predictably general and vague, Fillon’s title was direct and specific: “Vanquishing Islamic Totalitarianism.”
“There is not a religious problem in France,” Fillon told the Figaro newspaper in September, promoting the book. “There is a problem linked to Islam.”
He, like Sarko, is not great, but he’s clearly better than Juppe aka Chirac 2.0.
I’d probably vote for him, I don’t trust LePen, I’d have to consider her at this point but....I don’t know.
Most freepers will be rooting for LePen.
Is Fillon on record as pledging to expel Muslims from France?
Then why was she giddy when Trump won?
If Le Pen wins, then she will know that it was for one reason only — immigration.
She will know that the only reason she won was to stop the Islamization, and if she fails to deliver, then she and her party are finished. It won’t matter what else she does, if she fails in this one thing.
It would serve to keep her focused.
The marginal tax rate won't matter much if Sharia is the law of France. This is about survival of the French people, not economics. Once the Muslim invasion is halted, and reversed, that debate may resume.
Nigel Farage says the election of Marine LePen would mean the death of the EU.
Francois Fillon makes conservative speeches-economic and social conservative speeches.
Marine LePen is the populist, the Trumplike candidate.
Francois Fillon reminds me of Ted Cruz.
Death to the EU.......
I was going to make your two points about Le Pen but you beat me to it.
Nigel did say that and she is as close to Trump as you could get in France.
The EU is nothing more than a non elected dictatorship of it’s members. I would like to see it destroyed in its current configuration.
Viva Le Pen!!! Viva La France!!!
Fillon can make all the noise he wants to about ‘family values’ and ‘radical Muslims’ and so on, but if France stays in the EU ‘family values’ will be overruled by Brussels and ‘radical Muslims’ will be allowed to migrate into the country under the rules dictated by Brussels.
France is dead to me. I will not visit France or Germany or Sweden. I traveled to Europe every year for thirty years. I was even married there. But for now on, its the US or across the Pacific for me. And Quebec is quite nice.
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