Sarko shrunk

John Lichfield offers an on-point explanation of why Sarkozy has shrunk from Superman to mini-Me, a caricature of a superhero who can't get anything right:

What has changed is that core Sarkozy supporters have lost faith, and patience, with the style and personality of Sarko himself. Two events, above all, have angered them. The first was the promotion to culture minister of Frédéric Mitterrand, the late president's nephew: not only another leftie but also a homosexual and writer of dubious autobiographical books about cruising Thai boy-bars.
Worse, there was the egregious Jean Sarkozy affair. Here was a President who spoke of equal opportunities for all and his determination to break down the French elites. Here was the same President pretending it was quite normal for his unqualified, handsome, law student son to be promoted to political head of the vast La Défense office ghetto on the outskirts of Paris. Mr Sarkozy's claim to be a different kind of politician, closer to the thinking of real people, died in defence of his overhasty son's right to be boss of La Défense.

I believe that one of the main sources of Sarkozy's problems is that he was so successful in killing the opposition that he believed that he could do everything, sell anything and that nobody would dare to challenge, After all, none of the members of his expansive court dare to say to him that he had stop to be able to read the French because he was isolated in the Elysée palace. But Sarkzoy isn't dead for as Obama, he has the advantage of having no credible adversary to personify the growing discontent against Sarkozysm.