Toasted Bread is staying on top of the riots in Paris and the reaction to the election of French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy.

From National Review Online via Toasted Bread …. How did a conservative win the French election?

  1. He stuck on ideas. He had specific solutions for specific problems — including some of France’s most intractable — and he stuck by them no matter what. He didn’t allow his ideas to become swamped in sentiment.
  2. He reflected common sense.
  3. Sarkozy simply ignored what the French press assumed the campaign should be about — the enshrinement of the 35-hour week or Le Pen or whatever — and stayed on-topic.
  4. he didn’t give credit to constituency issues that weren’t his own (such as Royal being a woman).
  5. He ignored meaningless issues, for example, Bayrou.
  6. He prohibited cynicism, because he stuck with ideas.
  7. He ran from losers… of his own party (Chirac and the rest of the UMP establishment).

More videos at Toasted Bread ….

[gv data="5Hc3J65QYQQ"][/gv]

Fausta also has a great round-up …

Which is a great idea for American politics: it’s time we discard the misguided and destructive 1968 mentality.

Fausta also points us to Scrappleface who has Hillary Clinton’s reaction to the French elections.