We wunt are Predent to be a dumbass.

[Eddie]

The only thing that can be done when faced with this kind of stupidity is to ridicule it in public every chance you get. I can't imagine there's a country in the world where speaking any foreign language is considered to be a bad thing. Come on, what's wrong with these right wingers!

Speaking French helps with the ladies - fact.

George W. Bush spoke Spanish.

Bush couldn't even speak English.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The only thing that can be done when faced with this kind of stupidity is to ridicule it in public every chance you get. I can't imagine there's a country in the world where speaking any foreign language is considered to be a bad thing. Come on, what's wrong with these right wingers!

Speaking French helps with the ladies - fact.

George W. Bush spoke Spanish.

Bush couldn't even speak English.

He did speak Texican.

[Tero]

Only one way out of this for Romney. Who can run and win in 2016. Nascar.

[amused]

It's a very weird twist that the Republican party encourages anti-intellectualism so that it can gather working class votes by appealing to worker resentment of the very type of person who most benefits from Republican policies - the investment class, who do tend to be educated.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a very weird twist that the Republican party encourages anti-intellectualism so that it can gather working class votes by appealing to worker resentment of the very type of person who most benefits from Republican policies - the investment class, who do tend to be educated.

They appeal to selfishness and greed. It's a winner, most times.

[Coito ergo sum]

If that sonnagun Nelson hadn't read Themistocles, we would have invaded Ridicule Island anyway.

Themistocles? Any relation to the Greek philosopher Testicles? ...people said he was nuts...

[Coito ergo sum]

Speaking of which, I plan on making a run for the Presidency in 2028...

Based on the options this year, I may be writing you in for 2012.

[Coito ergo sum]

I don't think it's the ability to speak a foreign language that is the case here. Mr. Huntsman speaks Mandarin Chinese, and I think most people, even the most knuckle-dragging Republicans, would consider that to be a big plus. George W. Bush spoke Spanish. It's the particular language: French. At this time in US history, it invites a certain amount of antipathy among right-wingers.

Frenchness has always, not just this time in history, and not just among right-wingers, been viewed negatively, and Americans didn't invent it. We got it from the Brits.

But, it is correct, it's not the knowledge of another language that is the issue. It's the Frenchness. The French and France have an air about them of effete snobbery, and an attitude of superiority.

[Drewish]

I think about the people who vote because they're pro-life or anti-gay and it bugs the shit out of me. But then, then I realize that there is a group of people I despise even more than them; people who vote for candidates because they say, "He's cute" or, "He just seems like a real guy" or other shit like that. The impression/emotional voters who don't even stand on the flimsiest of principles or practical arguments. AAHHH!!!

[Warren Dew]

I don't think it's the ability to speak a foreign language that is the case here. Mr. Huntsman speaks Mandarin Chinese, and I think most people, even the most knuckle-dragging Republicans, would consider that to be a big plus. George W. Bush spoke Spanish. It's the particular language: French. At this time in US history, it invites a certain amount of antipathy among right-wingers.

Specifically, the antipathy dates to France's vetoes of the iniial U.S. attempts to get U.N. authorization to invade Iraq.

Of course, there's even more ingrained antipathy to the French in Britain that dates back centuries, denials by some on this thread notwithstanding.

[Warren Dew]

I think about the people who vote because they're pro-life or anti-gay and it bugs the shit out of me. But then, then I realize that there is a group of people I despise even more than them; people who vote for candidates because they say, "He's cute" or, "He just seems like a real guy" or other shit like that. The impression/emotional voters who don't even stand on the flimsiest of principles or practical arguments. AAHHH!!!

So basically you despise 90% of voters.

[MrJonno]

There is a British rivally with the French going back a long time but the idea that every applied to the language is very silly. If you don't like a country you learn its language so you can insult its people and they will understand it

[Coito ergo sum]

There is a British rivally with the French going back a long time but the idea that every applied to the language is very silly. If you don't like a country you learn its language so you can insult its people and they will understand it

It's not about the fact that he knows French. It's about the association of him with Frenchness.

[MrJonno]

There is a British rivally with the French going back a long time but the idea that every applied to the language is very silly. If you don't like a country you learn its language so you can insult its people and they will understand it

It's not about the fact that he knows French. It's about the association of him with Frenchness.

The problem with the French is they think they are better than everyone else but we British just are

[tattuchu]

It's not so much that Romney is speaking a foreign language but that France is now our sworn enemy since they wouldn't join in our illegal invasion of Iraq, so speaking French = pure evil.