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The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 11:23:29 AM

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Ségolène Royal intensified a desperate final effort yesterday to tar Nicolas Sarkozy, her presidential opponent, as a dangerous tyrant whose election would threaten the peace of France.
Ms Royal, the left-wing candidate who is about four points behind the conservative Mr Sarkozy in polls, denounced her opponent for the “great violence” and “brutality” of a campaign that she maintained was frightening away voters.

She will use a critical television debate with her opponent tomorrow to contrast her “France at peace with itself” with Mr Sarkozy’s “France of the hard Right”.

Ms Royal’s line of attack, five days before the country goes to the polls, was amplified yesterday by aides and supporters. In the latest torrent of anti-Sarko vitriol, 100 stars of the arts and sciences declared that “Sarkozy embodies a hard radicalised Right . . . with all its fears and hates. Entrusting the presidency to a demagogue like this means real danger.”

For the Left, vilifying Mr Sarkozy offers a last hope of breaking his march to the Elysée Palace on Sunday. Ms Royal’s aim is to stir anti-Sarkozy fears among those who voted for the centrist candidate, François Bayrou, who was eliminated with 18 per cent of the vote on April 22.

After attacking Mr Bayrou as a stealth Sarkozyite in the first phase of the campaign, Ms Royal has reversed course over the past week and waged a charm offensive towards him and his voters. In another gesture yesterday, she suggested that, if elected, she would appoint as prime minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist rival who is popular with the pro-Bayrou centre.

Fomenting the TSS factor (Tout sauf Sarkozy — anyone but Sarkozy) became inevitable when he emerged from the first-round vote with much greater credibility than Ms Royal but little popularity.

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 12:01:15 PM

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This election could be critical to the future of France and the rest of the EU.

I'm really not sure who I would like to see elected, though.

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 2:56:12 PM

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If the Conservative wins, it will be another hard blow to the Left. Canada went Right, Mexico went Right, and in Venezuela all the Left has is a huge embarrassment that is leading to certain disaster

A disaster, just like they have in France right now, as we speak

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 4:59:45 PM

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A disaster, just like they have in France right now, as we speak

Excellent response to your own thread concerned with demonisation.

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 5:07:54 PM

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Thank you. But a better response might have been that this all sounds so familiar in that George W. Bush freed 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and so the Left went all out to demonize HIM lest he look like the hero that he truly is for freeing that many souls from such terrible regimes. So now we have "Bushitler" thanks to the Left, and anyone who supports freeing people is a Nazi anymore... truly an Orwelian world of doublespeak

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 5:25:04 PM

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I have to admit that Ségolène Royal is somewhat vacuous and hasn't any policies other than wishful thinking but this election is like most wesern elections, a choice between the least bad of two very bad choices.

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RE: The demonisation of Sarkozy - 5/1/2007 6:55:32 PM

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The situation in France alarms me. In my opinion, they have had alot of unrest on civil issues. i am extremely concerned about who will govern there.

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