Stupidest attack ad yet

[Scooter]

Bonjour, Monsieur Romney.

Newt Gingrich unveiled perhaps the silliest slander of the campaign season Friday by mocking Romney’s ability to — Mon dieu! — utter a few words in halting French.

The 68-second attack ad tries to link Romney to his moderate Massachusetts political brethren and then takes a surreal turn when the narrator breathlessly intones “... and just like John Kerry, he speaks French.”

A clip of the 2004 Democratic nominee saying “Laissez les bons temps rouler” — “Let the good times roll,” the Mardi Gras slogan — is then followed by footage from 2002 of the current GOP front-runner introducing himself: “Bonjour. Je m'appelle Mitt Romney.”

That video was released as a promotion for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, for which Romney served as chief executive. English and French are the official languages of the Olympics.

The attack ad — which is dubbed “The French Connection” and also includes politically infamous images of former Bay State Governor Michael Dukakis in a tank and Kerry wind-surfing — was not funded by a Super PAC, but rather by the Gingrich campaign.

That means Gingrich — a former college professor who fancies himself as an intellectual — gave his approval for an ad that mocks the ability to speak a second language.

Gingrich has not always been such a Francophobe.

He lived in France for a few years as a teenager and has repeatedly compared himself to French World War II hero Charles de Gaulle.


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Well Mr. Gingrich, if this is the best you can do, then I've gotta tell you, paraphrasing Lloyd Bentsen, you're no Charles DeGaulle.

[Grim Reaper]

These attack ads really do get desperate around election time.