Here comes the Newtie Oppo Research: He called Spanish "the language of living in a ghetto."

[Pirate Smile]

As Newt Gingrich surges, rivals raise questions about his temperament

By JONATHAN MARTIN | 11/14/11 5:50 PM EST Updated: 11/14/11 6:04 PM EST

With Newt Gingrich emerging as serious contender, some Republicans are questioning his fitness for a general election campaign by seizing on comments the former speaker made in 2007 about Hispanics.

Making the case against bi-lingual education at a National Federation of Republican Women event, Gingrich said children should be taught "the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
In the wake of his comments, Gingrich recorded a video in rudimentary Spanish, saying: "The words I chose to express myself were not the best."

"It is indicative of Gingrich's propensity to say crazy things off the cuff," said an adviser to one of the former speaker's presidential rivals. "He hasn't had the spotlight on him up until recently, and I think it's only a matter of time before he says something that's inexcusable, nutty, or insulting."

This adviser, who shared the video, also noted with some awe that the former speaker himself had last month blamed "Republican incompetence" for losing Latino votes.
"This video could be devastating to GOP efforts to court Hispanics if he were the nominee," said the adviser.

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Hey, "adviser, who shared the video", Romney has been as RW and repellent to Hispanics as the rest of the field.

:)

[Cali_Democrat]

1. If anything, that will help him in the GOP primaries

The GOP primary voters love bigotry.

[Pirate Smile]

3. I would love for him to win the nomination. He is such a pompous asshole that it would be

wonderful to kick his ass - and we would.

[lumpy]

2. This country deserves better than what the GOP has to offer.

Crazy bigots, torture advocates, unrestrained business advocates, sex predators, war mongers, all around pie-in-the-skyers and the worst, uneducated egoists.

[hatrack]

4. Right-o Newt, I'll let Cervantes and Neruda know!

And we wouldn't want to leave out Garcia Marquez and Ariel Dorfman, either, now would we?

[flamingdem]

5. Or Borges for that matter nt