[mafree]

I was about to post this from Yahoo/Reuters. Bigger margin than I expected but I never thought he'd win.

[VaBthang4]

Awe Man...here it comes...

Weeks of Liberal sissies worldwide patting the french on the back for saving enlightened humanity from the scourge of reality.

Then back to French whining about America in general.

The more things change...

[MeekOneGOP]

This picture seemed appropriate to post since this election
also was a landslide. I'm sure Le Pen felt like this too?.........

RICHARD MICHAEL PRUITT / DMN
Dallas Police Sr. Corporal Kimberly Mayfield, a board
member of the Dallas Police Association, covers her face as
she watches the police/fire pay referendum results over the
Internet.
Police, fire raises soundly rejected
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/050502dnmetpolicepay.4cd26.html

[Dog Gone]

Le Pen is a reactionary, not a fascist. Small point to quibble about, but it's worth pointing out since Europe has lost the lessons of only a generation ago, it seems.

[Imal]

And so French politics once again slide back into irrelevance...

Imal

[Stavka2]

set off a popular movement to preserve France's democracy and dignity

Good, so now with it's dignity confirmed, France can continue to become Islamic, as violent as the English and so socialized that any and all of its brain trust will continue to migrate out as its very language becomes exterminated and turns into Arabic. Well, Frogs, enjoy your extinction the same way you Limes will soon die out. W. Europeans are dinasaurs who deserve extinction of their liberalized and pointlessly deluded cultures. Lucky for the few smart ones, the E. European Orthodox will stay fighting to the last.

[Cincinatus]

All three of France's major polling firms gave Mr. Chirac between 81 and 83 percent of the vote, with Mr. Le Pen getting 17 to just over 18 percent..... Mr. Chirac, whose murkily defined campaign was transformed into a crusade against the far right, now faces the challenges of a weak mandate,

Only in France would an 80% elctoral victory be refered to a "weak mandate"!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

I've been out all day....have the French surrendered (to whoever) yet????

[ex-snook]

Maybe headline should read European Union socialist candidate, Chirac, wins big over French anti-socialist candidate, Le Pen.

Le Pen is out of step with the new world order folks. Nah, being for your own country first is only appropriate for Sharon and Arafat.

[Incorrigible]

A few leftists said they were so displeased with the choice offered that they planned to cast ballots for the conservative Mr. Chirac, who is plagued by corruption scandals, wearing latex gloves or with clothespins on their noses.

I presumed French leftists always needed to wear clothespins on their noses!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

over ultra-right leader

how many times do i have to hear ULTRA RIGHT the press always seems to forget that chirac is a socialist