Royal really is hapless.
She should have walked away with this election.
I knew she was in trouble early, because I subscribed to her “Desirs d’Avenir” website, conversed with her partisans, posted thoughts there too. She herself did online chats there, and she posted her position papers.
Here was this bright, polished woman from ENA, attractive, and a mother of four to boot: she looked like a slam dunk, and should have BEEN a slam dunk.
But then she posted her opinion essays.
They were banal. Absolutely banal. There was no insight there. Platitudes like “Yes, yes I do believe that France has a future...”, followed up by calling those who webloggged for her cause her “militants”. It was like some sort of college student union pep rally. Flaccid, cabbage-headed, cud-chewing rhetoric. Abject.
I stopped reading after the second essay. And stopped saying that she was going to win. She was inept. When she proved as inept at international relations as she was in her Desirs d’Avenir, and the Guignols d’Info picked her up as a dimwitted suit, it was fading to black.
And then came the Gare du Nord and the reassertion of reality. After that, she was doomed.
They were banal. Absolutely banal. There was no insight there. Platitudes like “Yes, yes I do believe that France has a future...”, followed up by calling those who webloggged for her cause her “militants”. It was like some sort of college student union pep rally. Flaccid, cabbage-headed, cud-chewing rhetoric. Abject.
Fascinating, I noticed one of the “charges” that Royal laid against Sarkozy is that “He talks like an American”. What an odd thing to say.
Is that an attempt to point out that Sarko is the son of immigrants? Or that he is anti intellectual?
And folks, if you cannot see the next charge that Royal will throw up against the wall to see if it sticks, let me guess
After the only debate, Royal or a sycophant will say
“Sarkozy is secretly planning on sending our military to Iraq to Fight Bush’s war of imperialism, we have secret insider information on this..”
And the media will run with the story.