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So this is the last day of my little game and here are the last three of the Twelve.

 

I will post about Nihous, Royal and Sarkozy later, but I want to add something about our previous flyers.

As

sister_luck pointed out it was very populist, showing Le Pen as an action man (despite his age!) with a carnassial smile. In his handwritten motto, Le Pen wrote "Vive la Vie, Vive la République Vive la France" in that order. I checked out and he's the only one who used the word "la vie". I think it's interesting. What does that mean?

I believe it's a wink to the traditionalist (pro-life) Catholics who, according to the polls, would tend to vote for Sarkozy. Le Pen had to use a card that other candidates from the right didn't dare to use. He can no longer rely only on his infamous "La France aux Français" and the nationalist speech about immigration because De Villiers AND Sarkozy took up that field too (Sarkozy even stole his motto "La France tu l'aimes ou tu la quittes!"). 

So "La Vie" appears on the poster just as sacred as "La République" or "La France" (the use of la République is to reassure people of course). It's a simple message, 3 truths, 3 unchanging values. Le Pen is assuming a pro-life profile by using the word on his poster. A year ago his daughter said that abortion was a horror but seemed to have given up the idea of repealing the Loi Veil. Le Pen backed her up. Now he says that if he's President he will hold a referendum on abrogating abortion.

Of course the same candidate is also asking for the return of death penalty in France while the law that bannished it in 1981 is now part of our Constitution ! "Vive la Vie" has obviously its limits...

So I can't help posting extracts from the famous speech of a Republican who asked for the repeal of death penalty in May 1791...

 

Americans have wasps and we have bees! 

Sorry for the bad pun...

After Bayrou's here are the other B's posters as promised.