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Sarkozy Emerges As the Strong Man of the Sick Man of Europe

Remember, he's about as pro-US as one could hope for in a French politican:

France's weeks of riots may have created many victims, but they have also produced a clear victor: Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious interior minister who sees himself becoming the next French president.
While the French public has given general backing to president Jacques Chirac's government in cracking down on youths behind the urban violence, it is Sarkozy who has benefited most, according to a new survey out this week.

The Ipsos poll found his popularity has leapt 11 points to 63 percent, his "presidential vote potential" has climbed to 61 percent, and 68 percent supported his hardline approach to the unrest.

That puts him well ahead of prime minister Dominique de Villepin, whose popularity rose a more modest seven points to 50 percent, while Chirac lifted his rating by six points to 39 percent.

Villepin, who is seen as Chirac's designated heir for the 2007 presidential elections, had a "presidential vote potential" of 53 percent while the incumbent head of state -- who, at 72, is looking increasingly unlikely to stand again -- managed just 37 percent.

The numbers reveal where much of Sarkozy's fresh support comes from: 90 percent of voters in the camp of the extreme-right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen (the 2002 presidential contender) think he is doing a good job.

Cute how they get that little zinger in, huh? As if the only people interested in someone who wants to stop rioting rabble are Nazis.

posted by Ace at 01:00 PM

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*Communists* don't like rioting much, either. Well, rioting against THEM, that is.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on November 18, 2005 01:21 PM

Let's see. Nazi = National Socialist. Chirac = socialist. BusHitler = Republican, democratic federalist (for the most part, anyway).

Who's the biggest danger?

Oh, yeah, I forgot. BusHitler, because he's a Christian.

Posted by: Carlos on November 18, 2005 01:22 PM

LePen and Sarkozy are "extreme-right National Front(ists)" only in the sense that they think France should actually remain a separate country, unlike the demented socialists there who want to abandon nationalism for Euroism.

When I see so-called "conservative" European candidates labeled as such, I can't help but think of Mark Steyn's useful observation: You know how in some hotels even a small turn of the dial will change the water temperature from freezing to scalding? Well, Europe's political temperature is the opposite of that; you can turn the dial all the way from the left to the right, but from a Western perspective there is no change.

Posted by: Blacksheep on November 18, 2005 01:22 PM

Excellent news. The French press (and Villepin and Chirac) had done all they could early in rioting to attack Sarkozy.

Sarkozy has praised the US system in the past and can be expected to push for a loosening of labor practices (albeit without success).

He is known for pointing out that the French social model isn't much on social given so many French are unable to work, and even less of a model as no one is emulating it.

Posted by: Pigilito on November 18, 2005 01:50 PM

This can't be true! I just read in the WaPO Editorial yesterday that Sarkozy was losing out to Cruella DeVile, uhm I mean Dominique de Villepin in polls as a result of the riots and that his hopes for the presidency have been dashed!

Who am I supposed to beleive? Some blogger who cites specific poll numbers from a reputable source? Or some WaPo writer who makes unsubstantiated statements and then draws conclusions from them?

Posted by: Joe L. on November 18, 2005 02:13 PM

I’m not sure that last bit qualifies as a zinger. Le Pen came in second in the last presidential election, and all these youths from… oh, no place in particular... just asking for the recognition they deserve, probably gave his appeal an enormous boost. If Sarkozy can attract voters who othrewise felt they had no alternative but to vote for Le Pen, that’s great news.

I haven’t followed the French press, but I‘d be surprised if anyone is really equating Sarkozy and Le Pen. Sarkozy is conservative only by French standards, but he admires that nasty Anglo-Saxon free market economy and hopes to bring some of that spirit to France. Le Pen is just a genuine thug. He hates Muslims, yes, but then he also hates black people. And gays. And mongrel Americans. And Jews, most especially Jews. (Google up some of his quotes if you don’t believe me.) Hitler and Vichy? Not so bad. The notion that Sarkozy, who’s Jewish by background, is some kind of Le Pen fellow traveler is probably too ridiculous even for the French press.

Posted by: utron on November 18, 2005 02:44 PM

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