You can have one or the other.
But not both.
Enclaves of Sharia is occupation.
TIME is running out. And going backwards.
Posted on 04/23/2017 10:27:38 PM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Polls in France have closed. According to the exit polls, independent candidate Emmanuel Macron -- who's leading a "movement" rather than a party -- and Front National leader Marine Le Pen will proceed to the second round of the French presidential election.
That's exactly what was indicated in the poll of polls, which had Macron leading the field with 24 percent, followed by Le Pen with 22 percent. The exit polls show Macron with 23.7 percent and Le Pen with 21.7 percent. If those results prove true, the last polls were right on the money.
For Le Pen, today's result is an important victory. It was more or less expected, but she still needed to actually deliver. It's not the first time that the Front National has proceeded to the second round, but the last time this happened was back in 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine's father and founder of the party) didn't stand a chance -- and everyone, including Le Pen himself, knew it. Since taking over at Front National, Marine has truly improved her party. The results indicate French voters understand that and appreciate it.
Marine Le Pen has mainstreamed her party. It's the Front National's final breakthrough.
Meanwhile, the entire establishment has already turned against Le Pen. The leader of the Socialist Party, Benoit Hamon, and his number two have already endorsed Macron, saying that Le Pen will destroy France and warning voters that she and her allies are racist to the bone. It seems that the conservative Francois Fillon will soon do the same.
Head-to-head polls do indeed indicate that Macron will defeat Le Pen, but it's a completely different ballgame now. Front National has become a more or less mainstream party, and many conservative voters don't recognize themselves in Macron's blatant Europhile views...
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Le Pen is a long shot, but Trump was also a long shot.
Even Fillon (Republican Party) has advocated for Macron. You might see a third of his voters go toward Le Pen, but it doubtful that she will get past the 35-percent point.
The ‘empty-suit’ Macron will easily win this, and in a year....the public will ask who is this guy? The Rothschild bank folks pull the strings on this future of France.
Can foreigners donate to a French politician?
35% would be a victory for the Front National.
Perhaps we can hire the Russians to hack the election.
>Le Pen is a long shot, but Trump was also a long shot.
Trump was much closer in the polls. Le Pen big problem is the media. They’re 100% against against her 100% of the time and she doesn’t have Trump skills to go around them.
The commies are out.
Two things: anybody else weirded out by Macron marrying his former teacher? She’s only 25 years older.
Will there be a debate between LePen and Macron? If so, this gives LePen the best chance to expose her opponents inexperience while showing that she’s fairly moderate...and not some far right lunatic.
Yep, looks like France opted for a clone of Turdeau Jr.
I think it was a Frenchman who rightly said “People get the government they deserve.”
I can’t wait for the 20% that didn’t vote to vote for LePenn.
But Macron does look good in a 3,000-Euro suit....you have to admit that. Amazing how a guy graduates from college 17 years ago with a degree in philosophy, and ends up as French president in 2017.
I’ve noticed that many reporters always pronounce Macrons name as the French say it (Mah cruhn) but then pronounce Marine Le Pen just as you’d expect an average person in the US would (MA reene rather than ... mah REENE).
Personally I think we should say then all the USA way .... after all we say they speak French, not Frances, and we say. Paris not PahREE. So as far as I’m concerned, Macron rhymes with Akron.
AP is characterizing this election as “extreme right” Le Pen vs “centrist” Macron. But until a few years ago Macron was a Socialist which, I suppose, is not that bad in France but anyone who is a nationalist is “extreme right” according to AP and their ilk.
Press is calling Le Pen far right only because of her immigration stance. In economic matters she is far-left. Much farther left than Macron.
As always, the MSM labelling of Marine Lepen as “extreme right” is dead wrong. She is environmentalist, economically collectivist and interventionnist and socially leftist (she lives with a “companion” without marrying him, she is pro-abortion and pro gay marriage).
Like many French, I’ll vote for her at the run-off even knowing that she has no chance against Macron just to show the middle finger to the establishment.
But Macron winning the presidency is only part of the story, there are the legislative elections one month later which will decide the prime minister who holds a lot of executive power. It’s not at all sure Macron’s out-of-the-blue party will have a majority of seats, so the prime minister may well be someone from the Right which will lead to a “cohabitation” government, a status quo which will worsen even more the economic and social situation of France. Indeed, we have the government we deserve.
If you want to stick it to your favorite Feminazi relative just remind them that LePen is trying to break through the all-male glass ceiling as men have ruled France since the Middle Ages!
You can have one or the other.
But not both.
Enclaves of Sharia is occupation.
TIME is running out. And going backwards.
Dewey Defeats Truman!
Marine Le Penn can’t destroy France. That has already happened.
Her task would be to rebuild France from the ashes
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