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France delivers cautionary tale for Republicans: Column
PARIS — Rationality has reasserted itself in France, as it so often does. The second and final round of France’s last nationwide elections before its next vote for a new president in 2017 showed the moderate right reasserting itself and the ruling Socialists holding on after the nation had a brief flirtation with its version of the Tea Party movement just a week ago.
France's far-right National Front party fails to capture any region in election
"The danger of the extreme right has not gone away, far from it," Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in a televised statement. "We must prove that politics won't carry on like before, show that we are capable, particularly on the left, to again inspire the wish to vote for [something] and not only against."
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That's the problem with the GOP. They are against everything but stand for nothing.
PARIS — Rationality has reasserted itself in France, as it so often does. The second and final round of France’s last nationwide elections before its next vote for a new president in 2017 showed the moderate right reasserting itself and the ruling Socialists holding on after the nation had a brief flirtation with its version of the Tea Party movement just a week ago.
France's far-right National Front party fails to capture any region in election
"The danger of the extreme right has not gone away, far from it," Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in a televised statement. "We must prove that politics won't carry on like before, show that we are capable, particularly on the left, to again inspire the wish to vote for [something] and not only against."
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That's the problem with the GOP. They are against everything but stand for nothing.