Vote For Me! We Mustn't Upset The Radicals!

I must admit, I got a bit of a chuckle out of this...

France risks violence and brutality if right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy wins Sunday's presidential election, his Socialist opponent Segolene Royal said on Friday.

On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed Sarkozy enjoyed a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France.

"Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio.

"It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won)," she said.

Talk about taking demagoguery to an entirely new level. If you ever wonder why the French have the reputation as a nutless bunch of Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, well, here's your answer right here. Instead of standing up and demanding their rights as a free people, including asserting their God-given rights to effective self-defense, they sit there and let the people who get to be in a potential position to lead them either
a. demagogue the issue as Segolene Royal has done, or
b. tell them to sit down, shut up and wait on the cops to save them, as Nicolas Sarkozy has done.

God, but it's good to be an American. Things could be better, but they could be a hell of a lot worse, too.