April 22, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Leave it to the French
Leave it to the French to take to the streets in protest against -- themselves. At least the plurality of themselves who voted for Le Pen.
Many people are spendfing a lot of time today telling us that the Le Pen vote doesn't mean anything, or is "just a fluke". They're completely missing the point, which is that it's hilarious.
Of course he's not going to actually get elected -- as far as I could tell, his entire potential voter base was the 16% that launched him into the runoff. If he had a shot at running the country, then maybe it wouldn't be funny. (Or maybe it would be funnier. Since I don't think he'd have much of a shot of enacting the psychotic part of his agenda). But given that we can be pretty sure that Chirac will win -- well, breathes there a man with heart so dead that he could view that picture of all those shocked and hurt French voters that graced the front page of the morning papers without laughing until his morning coffee spurted out his nose?
Posted by Jane Galt at April 22, 2002 9:12 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links