What?…

Rosco, what do you mean, “corrupt socialists”? Chirac is not a member of the French socialist party. He is the figurehead of the right in France.
In any case, the choice was not so much about his politics as about the alternative, and I am sorry to say, given that LP has no track record at this level of governance and that some of his policies would have thrown France, possibly Europe and even the world into turmoil there wasn’t much choice.