This new ad from the Gingrich campaign is making the rounds:
If you don't feel like watching, it compares Romney to previous Massachusetts wusses Michael Dukakis and John Kerry and ends with the narrator snarking, "Just like John Kerry, he speaks French too," before showing a clip from the now infamous Olympic committee video.
But wait, does Gingrich really want to go down this route? He has his own dark Francophone past, as the AFP's Stephane Jourdain reported last month:
And Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives,
spent several years in Orleans as a youth when his father was posted
there as a soldier, during a period when France still hosted US military
bases.…
From 1956 to 1958, Gingrich lived in Orleans between the ages of 14 to 16.
He tells how he had a revelation when visiting the ossuary memorial
at the World War I battlefield of Verdun with his father in 1958.
"As a young man, I planned on becoming a zoo director or a vertebrate
paleontologist," Gingrich writes in a book. "Yet during one special
weekend as a teenager, I learned a powerful lesson that sparked my dream
of entering public office and becoming a leader of our nation."
In his biography "The gentleman of Georgia," he recalls, "That last
day was probably the most stunning event of my life. It was a sense of
coming face to face with an unavoidable reality."
In the book, author Mel Steely tells how Gingrich lived for several
months in a hotel while he attended an American high school. Later he
and his family went to live in a chateau in the Loire valley.
Newt "had enough French to survive" when he would go off exploring the city on his own, the author said.
Oh, I'd say that's not giving him enough credit. Newt not only had enough French to "survive" when venturing into town for a baguette -- he had a strong enough command of the language to write a doctoral thesis on Belgian colonial policies in the Congo that cites multiple French-language original sources.
So either Gingrich never actually read Pierre Wigny's seminal 1955 work "Dix Anées historiques et perspectives d'avenir au Congo," as he claims in a footnote on page 250, or the Belgian senate's 1947 "Rapport de la Mission Sénatoriale au Congo Belge," as he claims on page 245, or his French is a hell of a lot better than Romney's (and probably Kerry's). J'accuse!
If President Barack Hussein Obama could pick his opponent for 2012, liberal-minded Newt Insane Gingrich would have to be a top contender for the honor. After all, ithe incumbent could then say to voters (without even cranking up his lie-machine), "Hey, that guy is at least as liberal as I am! Better the Devil you know than the Demon you don't! Four more years!"
Huh? Oh, you're doubting Eye of Newt is truly all that liberal?
Well, maybe you're right. I've been painting walls in the house all day; maybe the fumes got to me. Let's see what the record shows....
His Newtness: 1993...supported individual mandate. 2011...still supports individual mandate. Grade: LLL for Liberal, liberal, liberal!!!
2. Paul Ryan's budget plan: Aprreciated by most of us on the right, hated by Obama, slammed vicously by the Newterizer as "right wing social engineering". Grade: LLL.
3. Environmental issues: From making a commercial with Nancy Pelosi shilling for Al Gore's green money making machine initiatives to getting himself hired as a lobbyist for ethanol subsidy recipients, Sir Gingivitis has nailed himself to the green wall on this one. Grade: LLL.
Libreral Newt Gingrich.
Ultra-liberal Barney Frank.
Besides all these "Triple LLL" grades, do you know what's even scarier? It's pretty obvious Ginga Din is actually ultra-liberal Democrat Barney Frank's long lost brother--take a look!
Okay, so how did this guy start out in politics? As a young Republican, perhaps?
Hardly. His first major foray into the arena, back when he was a mere grad student, was as the Southern regional director for the (brief) Presidential campaign of (ahem!) liberal Nelson Rockefeller.
Not exactly rock-ribbed Reagan type credentials for the early Newt Gingrich, eh? But wait! There's more! Let's take a look at his character--not something that seems to matter much if you're name is Bill Clinton, but definitely an issue for a supposed conservative. I don't care one bit about his divorces--got six of 'em myself--but leaving two wives when they were critically ill?
Man. He's not only Barney Frank's long lost brother; he's also the evil uncle who taught John Edwards.
The good news is that I have enough faith in my fellow conservatives to believe we'll blow this hypocrital, conservative-bashing Socialist in Waiting out of the water long before the Republican Convention in 2012. The bad news is that if he actually got the nomination, I'd have to seriously consider voting for a third party candidate.
Elmer Fudd? Absolutely! I'd vote for Elmer over Obama in a heartbeat. Maybe even Daffy Duck.
But not Obama Light.
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