Just because he’s a good author, doesn’t make him a good judge. In fact if his private life was the fail you say it was, then he was a very poor judge.
Anyone who is in any kind of bondage like that is susceptible to manipulation from many directions. They are thus a liability in any position of serious authority.
With books, you get a chance to write, then edit, then perfect it while you are at your best. In leadership you don’t get that opportunity.
My experience is the Europeans have virtually no conservative media available outside of the Internet, and they are influenced by the leftist barrage that has been hitting them for their whole lives from television and newspapers, whether they realize it or not.
That said, I would have preferred Pim Fortuyn to win the election rather than the leftist-muzzies that killed him.
OK, wise remarks. Well, Fortuyn would’ve been a candidate for blackmail, as a result of his private life, but anyway, he was a fresh, adventurous thinker, not afraid to voice his opinions.
BTW, as far as I know, his murderer was a radical Greenie/Leftie, but not someone connected with islam. He was diagnosed as having some form of severe autism/Asperger, which does, of course, not diminish the gravity of his deed. The killer was someone who, once an idea had taken his brain hostage (here: ‘Fortuyn is a danger to the poor and incapacitated’), he couldn’t get past that idea; it plagued him until that point in time where he’d got rid of the cause of that vexing thought.