The Far Right - in France and America

France is preparing to elect its National Assembly (parliament) members. They used to be elected with the presidential election, but now it's after, and it seems good to let the voters reflect before giving the presidential winner's party an absolute majority in governing.
But, the problem right now is that the Front National, the far right group that we would think to be voting with the conservative party of ousted President Sarkozy is apparently making plans to vote for socialists in key districts, so that the conservatives will not have a parliamentary majority.
This is a continuing feud between the French conservative party and the FN, which detests the conservative party's seeming conservatism but laxity when it comes to hard decisions. And, there is a personal feud between Nicolas Sarkozy and the FN founding family, the Le Pens, father and daughter, that is deep and bitter.
So, the outcome of the French parliamentary election is far from certain, and the new Socialist President, Francois Hollande, may get a National Assembly majority of his own party that will agree to his "spend-and-tax" agenda that would bankrupt France, which is teetering on the edge of falling into fiscal chaos.
Does this resonate in the United States? I think it does.
If the social conservative wing of the Republican Party stays home instead of voting for Mitt Romney in November, it could be a death blow to his presidential chances. And they would be, in effect, as is the FN in France, cutting off their noses to spite their faces, so to speak because their opt-out would surely give Obama a congressional majority as well as a second term.
So, as in France, to satisfy their desire to draw blood from Romney, the GOP moderate victor, they will give their country the worst of all worlds, in so far as their own goals and philosophies are concerned.
As for personal animosities, in the US, we only have to look to Jon Huntsman's overt talk about a third party to understand how much he dislikes Mitt Romney.
It is here that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum can behave like statesmen instead of sore losers by supporting Romney with enthusiasm and working hard to get him elected by bringing in the social conservatives of the GOP.
When I was still a youngster, I remember my great grandmother telling me that any Republican is better than any Democrat because of the ideals and convictions that support their actions.
If we substitute "conservative" for Republican and "socialist" for Democrat, that is still good electoral advice in 2012.