Comments on: The French race https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2171077 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:51:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2171077 The attack on the Louvre probably raised LePen’s polling numbers.
Another high-profile attempt will win her the election.

]]> By: Philip https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2171054 Sat, 04 Feb 2017 02:42:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2171054 How about ‘EU revoir’? It would only work as an Anglicized pun, I guess, since in French the acronym would be UE, I imagine. Still, maybe it could work. Or ‘AdiEU’, maybe.

Richard Fernandez had some good ones in an article of his a few months ago.

]]> By: fresh https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170941 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:10:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170941 The whole “Le Pen is going to get into the runoff election, but she will then be crushed in the runoff election”, seems to be the sentiment everywhere, including my own sentiment.

I was also one of the many who believed the prevailing sentiment a year ago that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination and get crushed in the general election.

]]> By: Wesley Young https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170813 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 09:10:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170813 Fillon is only a conservative in the eyes of the radical left. In America he would rank alongside obama.

]]> By: Frog https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170756 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:09:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170756 Putting the French people first in France? What an idea!
The EU is doomed in the long run. One does not make a good entree by adding every spice and herb in the rack to the pot.

]]> By: LondonTrader https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170713 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 01:34:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170713 My guess is that Le Pen will win the first round but lose the second round in a landslide. The more immediate danger to the EU is Italy where it’s becoming possible that parties favoring leaving the Euro (which has been a disaster for Italy) will have the mojority in parliament.

]]> By: Woolius Bullius https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170675 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:09:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170675 “France may have its own version of Brexit–Frexit?”

Fuxit.

]]> By: miklos000rosza https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170661 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:37:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170661 I have a very good friend in France (and was previously married to a woman from Avignon). My present friend, Celine, has been harassed by young Arab males who travel in packs, emulating such eloquence as the words of Miggs in The Silence of the Lambs.

My friend says that there is a pending “civil war” in the country, between those French who virtue-signal and remain politically correct as a form of secular religion — and those who hate and fear the Arabs in the banlieues and do not aspire to be Eloi eaten by Morlocks, end of story, goodbye.

There remains a huge stigma attached to the name Le Pen. So we shall see.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2017/02/02/the-french-race/#comment-2170643 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:08:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=66413#comment-2170643 Our french friends are of mixed opinions, the more conservative ones tell us they know Le Pen will be in the run off election, but are doubtful that she can win.

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