LMAO! Mexico's previously "conservative" President was a Bill Clinton clone who was well to the LEFT of Bush. If Vicente Fox is Mexico's idea of "conservative", there are no conservatives in that country. The new guy would have to be about 10 times as conservative as his predecessor Vicente Fox just to qualify for "moderate Republican" here.
What's Calderon's position on the WOT? Does he support building up the laughable Mexican millitary? Will he send troops to Iraq? How does he feel about gun rights and self-defense and the lack thereof in Mexico? Does he care more about the "rights" of convicted killers than the unborn, like his predecessor did? Does he even support life in prison for dangerous murderers? (the previous "conservative" President was so liberal on crime he didn't even support that) How's he feel about the welfare state? Assuming he's well to the right of Bush, he'll be perfectly happy if he cut off all government aid to his citizens sneaking into our country, right? How's Calderson feel about the UN? Will he send someone to the UN who tells Kofi to STFU? How's he feel about Cuba, does he support severing ties with the commie government in Cuba and enacting an embargo? How does he feel about traditional marriage laws? Did the new "Catholic" president object to his predecessor marrying his hot young secretary when his first marriage was still official?
Calderson would have to adapt solid stances on all the above issues just to EQUAL Bush's "conservativism". Since I doubt he's adopted a conservative position on any of the above, perhaps you can explain what makes him "well to the right" of Bush.
BillyBoy: I've looked at your profile, and read many of your posts, and I think we agree on a surprising number of things.
You are, however, completely ignorant about Mexican history and politics, and I suggest you drop the subject, because you've been making a fool of yourself on several threads with this Calderon/AMLO crap.
You have even asserted that AMLO would be preferable, based on false assumptions and information you pick up through a cursory reading of bad articles. For example, you write elsewhere that AMLO supports NAFTA -- which is not true at all, he wants to renegotiate NAFTA, which is why he lies and says he wants to "strengthen" it. For some reason, you take the commie candidate for his word.
You also assert that the repressive, socialist PRI, which persecuted religion for decades, banned abortion in Mexico. That is not true either -- it was never legal before, they just didn't legalize it everywhere. In various states, they allowed it for one reason or another when they were in control of the state governments.
Fox has been a big disappointment in many ways -- beginning with his divorce, his failure to do anything for the pro-life cause, and in many other ways as well. But Calderon is not Fox, nor was he Fox's preferred successor -- Calderon knocked that guy off in the primary.
Calderon is supposedly the "real deal" -- the Reagan to Fox's Nixon. Although Mexican conservatism is different -- after all, they don't have the same constitution or history we do -- Calderon compares favorably with any well-known religious conservative officeholder in the U.S.
Calderon will tell Chavez to shove it -- even Fox managed to do that -- and although Mexico does not necessarily share our foreign policy aims, there will be agreement on Cuba and on free trade in the Americas. Hopefully we'll also see greater oil output from Mexico.
As for immigration, you seem to think that Mexican Presidents should be policing our border for us. That's not in their interests. Your problem is that you can't understand another nation's politics without setting aside OUR interests for a moment and trying to understand THEIR interests.