I can't really believe that the American public would be seriously concerned that Mitt Romney can speak French.  If Newt Gingrich really picked this as a reason to lambast him, it should presumably disqualify Gingrich, not Romney, from office.

Now, I know little of either of them, but if you want to pick on Romney, I would have thought that his belief in - nay, his missionary zeal for - a man who gained inspiration from magic stones in the bottom of his hat at the start of the 19th century, would be a better target.  Surely that's even more worrying than being friendly with Frenchies?

But, of course, that's religion, so it's taboo...