Posted on 01/14/2007 2:35:30 PM PST by Cincinna
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy overwhelmingly captured the presidential nomination of France's governing party Sunday, pledging to reform the country, enforce respect of French laws and traditions and make the French work longer and harder.
In an 80-minute acceptance speech in a conference hall packed with 80,000 cheering supporters, Sarkozy also struggled to shake his reputation as the country's unforgiving law-and-order enforcer of security, portraying himself as a man of compassion who had changed.
"I have understood that humanity is a strength, not a weakness. I have changed," Sarkozy said from an immense stage bearing the colors of the national tricolor flag. He added, "I have known defeat, and I have had to overcome it, like millions of French people."
But his core message seemed aimed at wooing France's right-wing voters rather than those in the center or on the left who potentially could support his main rival, the Socialist party candidate, Ségolène Royal.
"My values are yours, those of the republican right," Sarkozy said. "These are the values of fairness, order, merit, work, responsibility. I accept them. But in these values in which I believe, there is also movement. I am not a conservative. I do not want an immobile France. I want innovation, creativity, the struggle against injustices."
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Canada and France go right-wing, USA goes left...
WTF has happened!?/s
What are his odds of winning the election?
Am I dreaming? A real man in France?
Sounds like someone we know...
I'm not sure. Pinging the usual suspects. Woohoo!!
Sarkozy might be an improvement over the feckless Chirac, but what France really needs is a Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan who will confront the Islamic problem and dismantle some of the socialism that has keep the French economy stagnant.
Well, maybe it's because Sarkozy is of Hungarian-Greek-Jewish origin... That probably distinguished him from the usual pinko French elitist rabble.
Contrary to popular belief......there ARE a lot of 'real men' in France. Just look at a generation ago.....the French Resistance. Unbelievable what they did. Their governments may have been wusses, but France isn't devoid of real men (AND women) who love their country, absolutely HATE what it has become, and want to see her strong again.
I predict this man will be elected.
France is catching on, but they still have a long road to travel.
A vote for a liberal is a vote for liberalism.
Don't vote for a letter of the alphabet. Vote for a philosophy.
Vote Conservative.
Give me $1000 on the Socialist.
Ok Sarkozy, now beat the crap out of Royal. Keep on reminding the people of how fake she is and how she is just a puppet of the left.
People are beginning to wake up. Except for our own leftists.
WTF has happened!?
Most American's are slow learners. But once it hits them in the ass, it's a sure thing.
Good luck, but fat chance getting the frogs to work longer and harder. They like their 20 hour work weeks at 40-hour per week socialist benefits.
He is tied with Segolene Royal in all the polls.
He is tied with Segolene Royal in all the polls. The first round of the elections are in 100 days.
A Frenchman with a spine... who knew?
And just as a lot of Americans on the Right are starting to lose theirs.
If France has any hope of not being a MUSLIM MAJORITY nation within 25 years this guy better win!!
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