Sarko is an excellent candidate who will good for France and good for the US.
It is not just that he is not a Socialist, like Royal, but that he is smart, capable, experienced, and has a spine of steel. He has shown throughout his career that he supports individual initiative, the work ethic, pay according to merit, lower taxes, and a strong relationship with the US.
At great political risk to himself, he met with, and was photographed with President Bush and Condi Rice. (see above photos taken September 2006) He was sending a strong signal that the anti-Americanism endorsed by the Chirac government was going to end.