An idea for Josefina's campaign (and for millions of Mexican parents)

Let me be honest and tell you that I don't know much about Josefina Vaquez-Mota, the PAN candidate.  

In 2000 & 2006, many of us in the US were familiar with Vicente Fox & Felipe Calderon, the PAN nominees.  They had a reputation outside of Mexico as conservatives and men who understood that the country needed reforms.  

We were also very familiar with Vicente Fox because he had a close relationship with our Governor GW Bush in the late 1990s.  They were both elected president in 2000 and worked together well.

Again, Josefina Vazquez-Mota does not enjoy that reputation.  

I am not saying that she is a bad candidate.  

I'm just stating the obvious:  Nobody knows Josefina! 

Besides that, she faces an uphill battle because the voters usually want change after a party has been in power for 12 years, or Fox & Calderon. 

Nevertheless, I am going to give her a campaign issue that the other two guys won't touch.

I am talking about public education reform, or an issue that no one has really addressed in Mexico because the teachers' union has always delivered votes on election day.

We call on Sra JVM to read Israel Ortega's article about a movie going around Mexico:

"Opening in theaters all across Mexico, the documentary titled De Panzanzo—loosely translated to “Barely Passing”—is a hard-hitting film exposing the sorry state of the Mexican public school system. 

According to the film, roughly 54 out of every 100 Mexican students will fail to receive a high school diploma.  As a result, Mexicans, on average, spend only about 8.6 years in school. 

In other countries, such as Norway and Canada, students average about 13.2 years in school."

Sra JVM needs something to establish her credentials with a public tired of 12 years of PAN but not totally sold on Pena-Nieto's "hope and change" and LO's part II.

Sra JVM must remind Mexicans that they will always be a 3rd world country as long there are monopolies like PEMEX and a public education system run for the benefit of the teachers' union.

Why should Mexican taxpayers pay taxes to support public schools but be forced to send their kids to private schools to get a quality education?

I think that my idea will give Sra JVM an issue that the other two guys are afraid to touch.  It will be a winner for Sra JVM and PAN.   It will also demonstrate that she is not afraid of taking on "sacred cows".  It will be a big hit with Mexicans who don't think that they are getting their money's worth from the bureaucracy.

Click here for our conversation with Israel Ortega of The Heritage Foundation:

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Nancy Pelosi was right: We had to pass the bill to learn what was in those 2,500 pages

We learned today that BO-Care is not really The Affordable Act:

"The Congressional Budget Office has extended its cost estimates for President Obama's health care law out to 2022, taking in more years of full implementation, and showing that the bill is substantially more expensive -- twice as much as the original $900 billion price tag."

OK.....the people who gave us the $787 billion stimulus, $1.3 trillion federal budget deficits for 3 years in a row, Solyndra, 2,000 guns in the hands of Mexican cartels, more other companies like Solyndra, more green energy disasters like Bright Automotive, the rejection of The Keystone Pipeline, going around the Congress and supporting a war in Libya, telling the enemy in Afghanistan of our withdrawal plans in advance.....and so on.....

Yes, the people who gave us The Chevy Volt (that no one wants to buy because it costs $40,000 and has a fire problem) are now telling us that the health care program will cost a lot, a lot more!  And we also learned that many will lose their own coverage.

Can someone say incompetence?  Nancy Pelosi was right.  We had to pass it first to find out what was in those 2,500 pages that no one read!

Check out my commentary on Friday's show about incompetence:

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