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6 So, the tyrant bullies the winner and bawls: Surrender her! I will floor her! At first, the tyrant achieves the opposite effect. His brute attack provokes the vacillating team to back up their own woman candidate. The men of the CDU gather behind the lonely woman at the forefront. Now they do. But how much longer will they?
7 Will the macho men of the SPD, who so far have prevented any female social democrat to become a candidate for chancellor, even hinder the Christian democratic candidate? Will they dare to approve the big coalition - including a CDU-chancellor - but not a chancelloress? Which reasons will they give for their preference for the Wulffs or Kochs? And what would the silent SPD women say to all this? Nothing, as usual?
8 Not only the surprisingly narrow victory, but also Schröder's coarse attacks have affected Angela Merkel, and exposed her. Because it is part of the logics of the tyrant system that the weaker ones are fascinated by him. All of a sudden, also the media no longer speak of a loser and a winner but of the "two candidates" who must "slug it out." We can imagine who would eventually be left behind as corpse on the battlefield.
9 Or, even more elegantly, both withdraw. "With this solution," BILD wrote yesterday, "Schröder could step down without losing his face. Motto: At least I have averted Angela Merkel." An candid remark. For quite some time, the Schröder-SPD has not been concerned with the welfare of the party or even of Germany. Rather they are concerned that their man does not lose his face. The issue is male honour. And if male honour is touched, then a man sees red.
10 On the altar of this male honour, a woman is about to be sacrificed who has dared to challenge HIM. Now, all means are justified, even the miserable strategy of changing the rules of procedure. For this alien, this Ossi, this woman must be stopped! This is the tyrant's request.