Left-Wing Europe

Remember how John Kerry's presidential amibtions were thwarted when he was accused of being French? Well, it seems that this tactic is still being used by Republicans when they want to smear their Democratic opponents - even with America-lover Nicolas Sarkozy in power in France. Here is Republican candidate Mitt Romney on the campaign trail in Iowa earlier this week:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today invoked a Karl Marx reference in seeking to portray leading Democratic White House contenders as liberals eager to hatch big-government schemes. Speaking to a crowd of about 75 people at Cronk's Cafe Restaurant & Lounge in Denison just after 8 this morning, Romney suggested that Hillary Clinton is too liberal not only for Middle America, but also much of Europe. "I'm convinced her platform wouldn't allow her to get elected president of France, let alone president of the United States," Romney said.

But it isn't just France that is the problem.  All of Europe is Marxist nightmare, and that is what Democrats want to bring to America:

"(Romney) said leading Democratic presidential candidates Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, appear attracted to the course of Europe.

"In my view each one of them would take us in a sharp-left turn toward the path Europe has taken," Romney said."

Romney goes to say that America must reject this Marxist-European course and instead gear up for more wars and embrace torture:

During the Denison stop, Romney called for more military spending and said the United States should use "enhanced interrogation" ...

Is this kind of idiotic rhetoric effective with some American voters?  Evidently yes:

Dick Watson of Carroll, retired from the wholesale drug business, said Romney is well-versed on the military and family values.

"I thought it was excellent," Watson said. "I think he's on target. I like what I hear and I think he will probably be our candidate and hopefully elected."

God bless America.

Comments

[Axel]

Didn't you know that Romney is a real expert concerning satanic Europe, especially France?

"It seems that Europe leads Americans in this way of thinking," Romney told the crowd of more than 5,000. "In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html

Note that neither the Pacte civil de solidarité ( PACS) nor the Concubinage he was possibly referring to are serious replacements for marriage.

[David]

Those evil French! Next thing you know they'll want to have multiple wives - just like the original Mormons(oops!).