With image aides and viral tweets, France's Le Pen targets power (Marine Le Pen)

Every week, a small group of Marine Le Pen's aides brainstorm on how to achieve what many say is impossible: change how most French people view her to get her elected president in May.

The "Idea-Image" committee of Le Pen's far-right National Front (FN)... The job of the group is to advise 48-year-old Le Pen and her top campaign officials on a wide range of issues from where to hold rallies and what issues to highlight, to campaign posters, speeches and online-campaigns.

While opinions polls predict the leader of the anti-immigration, anti-Europe FN will make it to the election's second round in May, they see her losing that run-off because a majority of voters still have a negative view of her. The Idea-Image panel's task is to help change public hearts and minds. -snip-

A key objective of the FN's strategy is to soften Le Pen's image and boost her appeal beyond grassroots supporters of the FN....Social media networks "are essential to talk directly to the people without a filter," Le Pen said ....

... The FN says it is struggling to get loans to finance its campaign. Le Pen,... took over the FN's leadership from her father Jean-Marie in 2011, has sought to soften its image and re-brand it as a party that protects those who suffer from globalization.-snip

Le Pen [uses] a blue rose as a campaign logo, ... , and her campaign slogan "In the name of the people", according to FN officials.-snip-

...[Le Pen] said her Christmas wish was "for France to pick a leader who thinks of the people".... "If you come to our country, don't expect that you will be taken care of, treated and that your children will be educated for free," she said. "That's finished now, it's the end of playtime."

Marine is championing her first name like our old GOP forerunner - Jeb! She's dumped the family name just as Jeb lost the Bush name from his early bid for the presidency. She's distancing herself from negative connotations associated with her father.

Marine kicked her father out of the party in 2015. According to the article, he alienated many French people and was convicted of 'inciting racial hatred.' That's probably real easy to accomplish in Europe if one challenges the foreign barbarian invasion. They have no First Amendment or right to free speech. They are constantly being silenced if they voice unfavorable political opinions, it's deemed as hate speech oppressive to one group or another.

Marine Le Pen and every politician must choose their words very carefully or she will be labeled a xenophobic. And nothing could be worse in Europe. Many would rather lose their country and convert to the political ideology of their invaders than be labeled a non-inclusive xenophobic.

Using only the name "Marine" identifiers her as the only woman among the top candidates and she's also dropping the party FN logo as well. Marine is using the symbol of a the Blue Rose for her logo which symbolizes - bringing all French together.

The Rose = Socialists; the color Blue = political Right in France. That could make her a right-winged Socialist, the equivalent of a Bush.

Some of Marine's opponents on FR state she is supportive of the muslim-french-invasion. But the article gives evidence to the contrary. One of her campaign advisors is from "Bloc Identitaire", an anti-Islam group that calls for the preservation of Europe's ethnic heritage.

Viktor Orbán's speech to the Hungarian “Border Hunter” patrol contained this gem:

"The principle of human rights never prescribes national suicide..."

And "diversity" does not mean Americans offer ourselves up as fodder to trouble-making invaders surging into our country.

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