Posted on 03/11/2011 3:46:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As her popularity and credibility as a presidential candidate has grown among a rising number of French voters, National Front (FN) party honcho Marine Le Pen has seen detractors draw negative comparisons between her and extreme-right figures elsewhere in Europe—a notorious crowd including Dutch politician Geert Wilders, British National Party leader Nick Griffin, and Italian Gianfranco Fini before he shed his overt fascist trappings to gain more mainstream influence. But there's another well-known foreign politician blazing new trails on the rightist fringe of her country's political spectrum who Le Pen could also be measured against: American Tea Party darling Sarah Palin. Yet when asked about their similarities, Le Pen stiffens visibly and rejected resemblances to the Wasila dynamo leading the assault on the U.S. political establishment from a point that often appears beyond the border of traditional conservatism.
“I can not be compared with Madame Palin, and the National Front isn't similar to the Tea Party,” Le Pen told TIME recently, insisting that some of the positions Tea Partiers hold are, well, more extreme than her own, “You have to be honest: we have almost nothing in common with the Tea Party. The two political systems are very different, and (Palin's) positions reflect that.”
Think Palin should be razzed about Europe's hardest-charging, fastest-rising extreme-rightist figuring there's too much stigma involved in being likened to her closest American counter-part? You betcha....
(Excerpt) Read more at globalspin.blogs.time.com ...
I am very confused about the title. When did you quit beating your wife? Marine Le Pen is a female. Does she have a gay marriage? I know France is more progressive than America but this would be a bit much even for France. What am I missing?
Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama, which is more Marxist-Leninist?
Which has the more worthless husband, that defines who they are?
Hard to read this drivel. Did the author specify what he thought was “extreme” about Palin?
I was comparing their question “Who is more extreme?” to the old courtroom ploy of “When did you quit beating your wife?” a question with no good answer. How is Gov. Sarah Palin ‘extreme’ in any real sense of the word?
If you had to guess without clicking on the link, what would you think??
What isn’t “extreme” about freedom? We’ve been living in a growing socialist dictatorship for at least 20 years.
What has Sarah Palin said or done that is extreme?
Your name is Crumley,...and you’re NOT embarrassed?
She believes in the U.S. Constitution, for starters!
Thanks.
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