Once again, the Democracy Babes are on the march. Sabine H””rold, the leader of Libert”” Ch””rie (”””Beloved Freedom,””? although personally I think ”””Sweet Liberty””? is a better translation), has announced she”””ll be running for Parliament to represent the chi-chi Sixteenth Arondissement, the Parisian equivalent of New York”””s Upper West Side. And she”””s not ruling out a presidential run next year to replace Jacques Chirac, saying the likely major candidates, Gaullist Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist S””gol””ne Royale, won”””t go far enough in pressing for the reforms France so obviously needs. (Apparently Dominique Villepin is out of the running after the recent round of student labor strikes. This surprises me. I figured he was a shoo-in, because he had exactly the same hairdo as the President of Earth in Barbarella.)

“I don”””t see myself as of the Right,” Mlle. H””rold says, and in French terms that”””s true. Her platform of separation of powers, limited government, and a market-driven private sector doesn”””t fit anywhere on the French political spectrum, but it makes her one of the few French politicians whose views are even comprehensible to your average American. Also, you’ve got to like someone the French press calls “Mlle. Thatcher” and who takes it as a compliment. Allons-y, girrl!

(H/t to The Captain’s Quarters.)