Posted on 04/30/2007 8:39:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Ségolène Royal intensified a desperate final effort yesterday to tar Nicolas Sarkozy, her presidential opponent, as a dangerous tyrant whose election would threaten the peace of France.
Ms Royal, the left-wing candidate who is about four points behind the conservative Mr Sarkozy in polls, denounced her opponent for the “great violence” and “brutality” of a campaign that she maintained was frightening away voters.
She will use a critical television debate with her opponent tomorrow to contrast her “France at peace with itself” with Mr Sarkozy’s “France of the hard Right”.
Ms Royal’s line of attack, five days before the country goes to the polls, was amplified yesterday by aides and supporters.
In the latest torrent of anti-Sarko vitriol, 100 stars of the arts and sciences declared that “Sarkozy embodies a hard radicalised Right, with all its fears and hates. Entrusting the presidency to a demagogue like this means real danger.”
For the Left, vilifying Mr Sarkozy offers a last hope of breaking his march to the Elysée Palace on Sunday
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The elitist leftists inciting fear and anger.
They are a shameful bunch.
yikes- that means they’re still holding mass voting by felons, noncitizens, and the dead in reserve still...
I don’t know much about this guy, but if the lefties are going batty and attacking him, then he must be doing something right.
Sarkozy isn’t even “hard right.” He’s like what Rudy is.
But to hear the Liberals talk, Chirac is a “Neo-Conservative”.
Unfortunately, the “middle” in France is somewhere to the left of the MoveOn Democrat...
This guy better fight back and say France just had the best turnout since 1969, something like 85% of eligible voters turned out. Just 8 days after that election this Socialist Marxist is using this suppressing the vote tactic crap. Throw it back in her face.
Lefty vermin is the same all over the world I guess.
What is it with liberals and lying?
-BBR
Royal misses the peace that Nazi occupation provided.
The only thing that scares me is that French movie people may pull an Alec Baldwin/Barbra Streisand threat in reverse and promise to move to the U.S. if the election doesn't go their preferred way. They might actually do it, and we'll be stuck with them.:)
Thanks!
If it helps destroy France and advance their sick cause they will.
Very accurate characterization.
Racist... check.
Insane... check.
Divider not a Uniter... check.
Anybody but X... check
Hard Right-Wing extremest... check.
Support of ‘hollywood’ (celebs) and empty headed pop stars... check.
Goes well with their other “ideas” during the past week which included “fake but accurate” accusations that he got a debate canceled, claiming voting machines screwed them and the election was stolen, and ‘smearing’ the guy over actually meeting with Bush.
Makes ya wonder if they aren’t centrally funded... *cough*
Ségolène Royal intensified a desperate final effort yesterday to tar Nicolas Sarkozy, her presidential opponent, as a dangerous tyrant whose election would threaten the peace of France.
“France at peace with itself” with Mr Sarkozy’s “France of the hard Right”.
declared that “Sarkozy embodies a hard radicalised Right . . . with all its fears and hates. Entrusting the presidency to a demagogue like this means real danger.”
Fomenting the TSS factor (Tout sauf Sarkozy — anyone but Sarkozy) became inevitable when he emerged from the first-round vote with much greater credibility than Ms Royal but little popularity.
As a tough Interior Minister until last month, the ambitious Mr Sarkozy earned the dislike of many young people — especially those from the immigrant ghettos. His doctrines of radical economic reform and individual responsibility — never before aired by a senior French politician — have been welcomed by many as a revolution, but cast by opponents as divisive, cruel and unFrench.
Mr Sarkozy mused at the weekend over the antipathy that he stirs: “Why so much hate?”
He proceeded to spur fresh fury among the left-wing Establishment by blaming the “generation of 1968” for the moral crisis of France.
Pro-Royal campaigners have called him a “French Berlusconi”, a new Bonaparte and a “French George W. Bush”
...called him insane. “His is the kind of madness that has stoked a fair number of apprentice dictators in the past,”
The 100 artists and intellectuals called for a Royal vote yesterday: “To vote against Nicolas Sarkozy is to avoid the danger of a France at war with itself, in conflict and in crisis, divided and torn apart,”
Many of the signatories are to join Ms Royal, along with pop singers and other celebrities
“Mr Sarkozy stirs the latent racism in people.”
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