LOL. Surprised? I am not. He was not a true conservative anyway. Mexico deserves what it gets.
The Calederon supporters on FR proclaim he's a true conservative and call everyone else igorant and ill-informed of Mexican politics if they point out the last "conservative" President of Mexico (Vicente Fox) is a defacto Clinton Democrat.
I would really like to know how Calederon is "more conservative" than his predecessor. Is going to send troops to Iraq to support us? Is he a law and order guy who wants to allow capitol punishment in Mexico? Is he against government handouts and the welfare state (and if so, does that mean he'd eager accept the U.S. pulling all aid to illegal aliens other than emergacy care). Are his "pro-life" values more important to him than the lives of condemned killers? (his predecessor Fox was silent on abortion but felt the need to impose his anti-capital punishment on not only Mexico but the rest of the planet)
Perhaps the Calederon supporters can help me out here and explain exactly what makes Calederon an improvement over Fox. I'd really like to know what makes me so "ignorant of Mexican politics here"
Oddly enough, I know Mexican-American Calderon supporter firsthand who is a co-worker of mine at the office. She is strongly anti-Lopez-Obarador and says the vast majority of Caleredo supporters in the U.S. consider themselves Democrats. She also sees little difference between Calederon and pro-free trade "new" Democrats like Clinton.
You will note that Mexicans abroad in the U.S. overwhemingly voted for Caleron and Mexicans abroad also overwhemingly supported Kerry (check the demographics of the counties that Kerry won in "safe Republican" Texas)
Am I missing something here?