I realize neither are good choices, but between the two, who should US conservatives root for to win?
The one that will keep Mexico’s criminal element IN Mexico!
Judging by the 2000 and 2006 presidential election results in Mexico, if a bunch of freepers and media pundits tell us that the PAN candidate is "friend of America" and a "rock solid conservative", that means (s)he is a big government socialist, gun grabbing, soft-on-crime, open borders, Democrat-loving statist.
Both sides are puppets for the drug cartels...
Send the Marines and kill all of them.
Well, one of them is the local Gore soreloserman, a Chavez wannabe. The other is just a regular inept.
I would hope for a Pan win, but it's not going to happen. I actually think part of the reason that the Pope visited Mexico, and that Cristiada (For Greater Glory in the US) was recently released was to remind Mexicans of the legacy of the Political Party that ruled uninterrupted for 70 years (until 2000 when PAN won).
The PRI, had such greats as Plutarco Calles, most noted for a fierce oppression of Catholics that led to the Cristero War, a civil war between Catholics and government forces in which 30,000 Catholics were killed, and for founding the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Party, or PNR), which eventually became the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The incumbent is the lesser of two evils. The one most likely to win, from what I’ve heard, tends to leave the cartels alone, from his previous office.
“I realize neither are good choices, but between the two, who should US conservatives root for to win?”
PAN is the Conservative Party but fact is PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto is to the right of PAN candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota. AMLO is a Hugo Chavez type marxist nut job. He has campained as a moderate this year but that does not change 57 years as a marxist.
Enrique Peña Nieto has promised to lower narco violence which Mexicans infer means a truce with drug cartels.
But in his Victory speech he again promised no truce or agreement with organized crime. Only time will tell what he actually does.
There were 3 choices.
The vapid PRI (amusing how these corrupt socialists rebranded themselves as populist moderates) guy won.
The commie (who I think doesn’t like leeching population to the USA but I would never support him)
The PAN “conservative” lady came in third. PAN should have never nominated a woman, they would have lost anyway but they didn’t give themselves a chance.
Calderon and Fox sucked but I don’t see a better alternative in Mexico.