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Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Republican attack ads, Republican campaign 2012, Republican candidates, United States anti French?o, United States Politicians speaking French, US Election
American Presidential campaigns are endlessly fascinating beasts! I mean where else in the world can one be attacked simply because one went to the bother of learning a foreign language? Where else can the mere fact that you speak French, of all things be held against you? In America of course – at least during a Presidential campaign.
Well, quelle surprise ma Cherie, it’s not that we haven’t seen this before. Senator John Kerry, whose faultless French should have been a bonus, showing a travelled cultivated intelligent mind, acquainted with the wider world, was castigated during the 2000 campaign simply because he could speak this, the vilest of languages. Instead, his opponent G W Bush, a man who struggled to speak English, made out it was a sign of dangerous anti-Americanism, a definite proof that he was a closet traitor, a dangerous subversive. Surely this was not the sort of man you could sit down with, have a beer, pass wind and discuss manly things like sport? French you say? My the man must be a socialist after all.
In the clip above we see that pasty faced puffed up old hypocrite Gingrich’s friends are trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel by wheeling out this tired old canard and using it again, this time against Mitt Romney.
Still, Mitt might do better than Churchill, heard here impersonating a Speak Your Weight machine back in 1940!
Copyright David Macadam 2012
Isn’t it fascinating?!
“Multi-lingual” has now become such a dirty word – just lump it in with communist, traitor and hypocrite!
Yes it is odd, and in fairness its not the just the preserve of the USA. Being thought “intellectual” as a politician can be as damaging to your chances here as it seems to be in America. Perhaps its an “anglo-saxon” thing.
THIEMANN: That’s for damned sure! Barbed wire is barbed wire! I know what I’m up against…. No rose without a thorn!… And the last thing I’ll stand for is ideas to get the better of me! I know that rubbish from ’18…, fraternity, equality, …, freedom…, beauty and dignity! You gotta use the right bait to hook ‘em. And then, you’re right in the middle of a parley and they say: Hands up! You’re disarmed…, you republican voting swine! — No, let ‘em keep their good distance with their whole ideological kettle of fish…. I shoot with live ammunition! When I hear the word culture…, I release the safety on my Browning!”
Hanns Johst, Schlageter
Anyways, I’m sure its all VERY democratic.
Romney Employing
Immigration Issue for Advantage over Gingrich, Perry. Romney has
taken a
firmer course against
illegal immigration than last House Speaker Gingrich
and Texas Gov. Perry, who controvert deporting
every illegal immigrant.