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>> The bottom line here is, folks: Nothing’s gonna change in France. Not a single thing is gonna change in France. These two candidates were remarkably the same in their issues. The biggest difference between the two of them — the 39-year-old Macron and Marine Le Pen — was immigration. She wanted to limit it to 10,000 for, you know, a month or a year or whatever, and he wants a limit of 210,000 on it. They’re both more socialist than centrist, especially the guy. But Marine Le Pen is socialist, too, because all of France is socialist. She just happened to have a little nationalist tinge to it. But they’re both socialists. <<

I agree with Rush 100% here. There were no good options in France, only the "least bad" option. It's not like Macron is going to be any worse than Hollande.

It's not like Macron is going to be any worse than Hollande.

I guess not.

If the UK and France leave the EU, it becomes a German operation. Then the Russians get drawn in to counter German influence. And different countries with grudges against each other line up with either the Germans or the Russians.

So, no surprise -- the French don't want to leave the EU. Plus, too protectionist a policy would hurt their economy, so its understandable that they stuck with the status quo.

"There were no good options in France, only the "least bad" option. It's not like Macron is going to be any worse than Hollande."

Actually, I worry that Macron might try to make Hollande's surrender more efficient, both to the Muslims and to the German run EU.

Macaroon is a bit to Hollanise Sauce’s right on economics, same on everything else. I’m kinda getting a Tony Blair vibe.
As you know, I preferred Fillon (also not great but the closest thing to a conservative that will get more than 2% of the vote in France). Le Pen sucks from a free market perspective, in fact she tried like hell to get to the left of Macaroon to win votes, but I don’t agree we shouldn’t care cause there was a big difference between the two on letting in gobs more Muslims and letting them run amok.

These results make it pretty clear to me though that Le Pen never had the slightest prayer. Front National is still after all a party that was founded by her daddy, a holocaust denier, and he actually made an appearance a few days before the election. I think her post-election remarks that her party needs a total rebrand to have any chance are correct.

Masterful job by the French establishment in engineering Macron’s victory. Hollalnde wasn’t gonna win or probably anyone under the Socialist Party banner so they run this guy under a new party, and when Le Republicans nominated Fillon instead of “electable RINO” Alain Jubain like they were supposed to, he had his opening to win, then they tagged Fillon with a fake scandal to make sure it was him and Le Pen.