17 April 2007

Surrender Monkeys no more?

Christopher Hitchens on France...
There is a reason why the French Communist Party, which used to dominate the working class, the unions, and much of the lumpen intelligentsia, is now a spent force that represents perhaps 3 percent of the electorate.

And that reason, uncomfortable as it may be, is that most of the Communist electorate defected straight to the National Front.
UPDATE: Playing the "gender card"
-- PARIS, April 18 -- At an outdoor rally just days before the French are to cast their ballots for president, Ségolène Royal, the Socialist candidate, came with a special message.

“I want to address myself to the women,” Ms. Royal declared in the town of Achicourt in northern France on Sunday. “I need the women’s vote.”

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