Making the case against bi-lingual education at a [2007] National Federation of Republican Women event, Gingrich said children should be taught "the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
A bit later, Gingrich taped a characteristically insincere video in Spanish -- or, to you Texan graduates of Yale, in "Mexican" -- saying "The words I chose to express myself were not the best."
Yet that's hardly the most delightful part of this classic tale of Gingrich's m.o. Which was, instead, this: It was a rival campaign operative who "shared" the video with Politico, observing "with some awe that the former speaker himself had last month blamed 'Republican incompetence' for losing Latino votes."
We'll only have The Gingrich for a short while. Let's enjoy him (it?) while we can.
DSM IV contains no reference to something I like to call mass ADD but it should. A combination of mass psychosis and attention deficit disorder it leads its group of sufferers to forget why they didn't like someone last week and wish to elevate them to messiah this week. There is no cure.
Posted by: Peter G | November 15, 2011 at 11:55 AM