THIS IS HOW FAR IT’S SUNK: Newt hits Romney for speaking French, despite his own apparent fluency. This is just stupid.

UPDATE: Reader Alex Blinder isn’t buying the whole narrative: “So let me get this straight. When Romney’s firm makes an investment and it turns out badly, he is a ‘vulture capitalist.’ When Obama uses taxpayer money to prop up political cronies and donors, and they fail, he is a benevolent capitalist who is ‘winning the future’.”

It’s kinda like how travel on corporate jets is evil, but travel on taxpayer-funded jets is fine.