Déjà Vu All Over Again

Two Gaullist Presidential candidates didn’t do Jospin any good. So here’s hoping that two Socialist Presidential candidates won’t do Sarkozy any good.

After all, events since his election have proved that the old Gaullist faith of economically more-or-less social democratic, morally and socially conservative patriotism (including economic patriotism, foreign policy realism, and decided non-subservience to the United States) was right all along.

But if people want that, then they cannot vote for him, any more than economically populist (including economically patriotic), morally and socially conservative foreign policy realists could vote for John McCain. As they therefore did not do.

So, who is going to step into the breach?

Mesdames, it’s over to you.