Sarko is the outsider, Hollande the BoBo-Bourgeois Bohemian, radical chic, la gauche caviar.
To the Left, Sarkozy, who went to the wrong schools, is forever the outsider, the upstart, the usurper — a “dirty” climber blinded by ambition and unworthy of incarnating the French state through the Fifth Republic’s highest office.
Don’t count Sarko out just yet. As Roger Cohen concludes in his article “Score one — and a big one — for Sarkozy. Leadership matters.”