He is the reasonable right, maybe, but he still is the right. He has governed with the right, he has been elected by the right, and he has local electoral alliances with the UMP all over France (including some pretty recent by-elections) - and not a single one wiht the PS.

The fact that a rightwing candidate can appear to be "centrist" only tells us about the general drift to the right of public discourse, something that as a blog reader should not come as news.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes