Posted by
Anticontrarian on Friday, May 04, 2007 10:52:25 AM
As amazingly dangerous as American leftist politicians have become, things seem to be several orders of magnitude worse in France, where Socialist candidate (and likely loser in Sunday’s run-off election) Segolene Royal is desperately trying to intimidate voters from voting for her opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy.
I’m not sure whether the headline Violence feared if Sarkozy wins should read, “Violence threatened,” or “Violence suggested,” but in either case her ham-handed attempt to steal the election by insinuating that Sarkozy’s detractors will react violently if he wins, while trying to spin this as a negative about Sarkozy instead of a negative about his opponents, is an incredible example of chutzpah.
Royal noted that Sarkozy had not been able to campaign freely in the suburbs without the escort of "hundreds of police".
We’ll all have to remember that in 2008. If Obama provokes insanely violent riots when campaigning in Texas and requires hundreds of security personnel to keep him from being torn apart by crazed mobs, the GOP candidate will have to make sure to excoriate Obama for his divisive campaigning. And if despite all that, Obama still looks like the likely winner by October of 2008, Rudy or McCain should be ready to play the Riot Card..