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GOP’s Great Ideas Man Taunts Mitt Romney for Speaking French

Behold, the latest web-based campaign ad from the Republican Party's Great Ideas Man — a historian running a "purely ideas-oriented ... almost ... Charlie Rose-style campaign" — Newt Gingrich. Looks like it's called "The French Connection" — maybe Gingrich is borrowing some innovations from our European allies, the French? Let's take a peek:

Narrator: Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney — he'll say anything to win. Anything. And just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too!

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