Who’d even WANT to run France? (other than off a cliff)
- Posted by Martin on April 25th, 2007 filed in General, International, Martin
The Guardian, a paper I try to avoid like the plague, carries a decent piece about the difficulties that designer-airhead Segolene Royal faces convincing Fwenchies in Fwance to vote for her. She makes the Silky Pony™ look like a heavyweight thinker.
Nicolas Sauger, a political analyst, said Ms Royal also had to convince the nation she was not the hesitant, incompetent party outsider her critics described. He said it was crucial to hammer out policies that fitted the centrist vote, such as a pro-European message with a promise of a referendum on any new constitution.
Incompetent? Hardly. Here is a woman (obsessively so) who can conjure up deep, meaningful aphorisms such as these:
“I think that the moment for women has arrived. Not for women but simply for the harmony of life.”
“For men who have spent all of their life engaged in the conquest of power seeing a woman overtaking them is viscerally unbearable.”
“Why should one have to be sad, ugly and boring to go into politics?”
“I’m making policies by looking at what I would do for my own children.”
How do you even begin to unravel the complex philosophies that these cosmic pronouncements are based upon?
The brilliant quote suggesting that the moment has/has not arrived for women and/or the harmony of life is one that will transcend the ages, and probably form the intellectual underpinnings of a future global neo-liberal movement. Or something.
France’s public debt, now at 66% of GDP, was crucial to the centrist campaign and Ms Royal is likely to increase calls to curb spending deficits.
Yes, the Socialist will sound soooo credible calling for spending restraint. It’s what they’re known for, after all. 66% of GDP sounds high, I wonder what the equivalent number is for the United States. Just checked, and it’s 64.7% and that too sounds too high! Congress - please stop.
Even socialist voters yesterday said they were let down by her speech after Sunday night’s results, appearing stiff, wooden and uncomfortable. She is often accused of having a grating voice.
Sounds like Hillarious has a doppelganger.
Pollsters were divided yesterday on how the 6.8 million people who voted for Mr Bayrou would divide between Mr Sarkozy and Ms Royal. CSA said that 45% of Mr Bayrou’s vote would go to Ms Royal and 39% to Mr Sarkozy, with 16% abstaining. Ifop disagreed and said most of the party would return to its conservative roots.
The term ‘conservative’ as it is understood by The Guardian and most frogs is not what you or I would characterize as conservative but no matter.
Allez Sarko!
raz0r says:
Bayrou or Royal. Left or far left. Some choice.
Macker says:
Meanwhile, the Islamofascist movement laughs their asses off at the West, even as they continue to frak their way to dominance in Europe….
So sad.