You have to love the French left
Genius. There's a French analyst on Sky News at the moment offering his unbiased opinion on the French elections. There is, he tells us, a worrying similarity with the first Bush election in 2000:
You know, the same person has been ahead in opinion polls before the first and second round. And the polling firms are private companies. This is very suspicious.I can't think of another explanation than some kind of fraud or conspiracy to elect Sarkozy. I mean it couldn't possibly be, could it, that more people actually said to the pollsters that they supported Sarkozy than said they supported any of the other candidates?
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Jeremy James
May 5th, 2007 11:45pmThe Sky correspondent is obviously in bed with Segolene. So many polls all saying the same thing? Come on. If she loses, as seems probable, it will be for two reasons - incoherence (where were the big beasts to help her out) and the disastrous tactical error in trying to demonise Sarko. The Debate cost her at least two per centage points. Even Le Monde, not renownedly right wing, admitted Sarko had won eight of the twelve points it had noted in the debate. Any bets it was the reptilian Fabius who advised her to become rottweiler instead of pussycat? And who thinks he will benefit from her defeat? Look at French politics and think personality not policy.
Robert Marchenoir
May 6th, 2007 3:24pmI really love this one. We have been entertained with an endless string of conspiracy theories such as these by the Left, here in France, but this one really takes the biscuit. Do not believe the extraordinary view of this so-called French analyst is exceptional in any way. The Left has largely managed to brainwash the French into accepting its nutty worldview: if reality does not abide by leftist theories, then it does not exist. As a citizen, you might believe that you support Sarkozy. However this is just an illusion: you have been coaxed into this state of mind by evil forces, unbeknownst to you. It is just not possible that a free-thinking, human being supports anyone but a Left-wing candidate. If Sarkozy is indeed elected tonight, it will be, in part, as a revolt against such crazy acts of the French thought police.