Paredes Is Turning into Zuckermann's Heavy Bag

Leo Zuckermann drills Beatriz Paredes (this is has been a repetitive story in recent weeks. Zuckermann is to Paredes what Austin Collie is to the middle of the Jets secondary):

Once more I repeat: politicians must be judged on what they do and not what they say. One thing is a speech and another very different is action. Talking is cheap, especially when one bets on the population's short memory. Here we have, for example, Beatriz Paredes's speech at the fifteen-hundredth seminar on political reform in Mexico.

The national president of the PRI said that "her party won't permit the approval of the independent candidacies, because it believes that behind them there are powerful special interests and ultra-right groups". She went on: "That's why the debate over independent candidacies has to be conducted not based on the democratic ideal of a civil society amply participatory and with high citizen density, but rather from the unusual fact of hyperactivity from ultra-right groups that perhaps think that the confusion that dominates on some issues could carry them to political power. In the PRI we say: They shall not pass".

What is Paredes talking about? What are the hyperactive ultra-right groups? Where are they? What do they want? While the priísta provides no more information, her discourse lingers in the typical rhetorical scare tactics: watch out because here comes the bogeyman.

The PRI president's talking with such worry about special interest is striking, when it's her party that rounds up and protects many of them...I'm sorry, but if there is one party that has protected special interests in Mexico, it's the PRI.

Yeah, that's pretty bizarre. I wondered yesterday if the "stink of authoritarianism" was an unreflective aside upon which reporters were unfairly harping, but it would seem the opposite is the case. Has she always been this off the wall, or only since the election?