Y yo pensé que hablo espanol terrible!

Newt Gingrich is standing up for English in the United States (about time someone did!).

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100.

Wow, 100 people! Anyway, apparently people don't like hear their mother tongue is the obvious language of poor, dispossessed people. Or blacks, or Jews. Actually "the language of the ghetto" is not entirely clear what he means other than "America ain't that shit, and if it is, it's poor Americans who probably deserve it!" Gingrich did issue a "I'm sorry you don't understand my point" non-apology...wait for it....in SPANISH! OH DAMN, DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!! WHAT, WHAT?! or QUÉ, QUÉ?!



So let's sum up: "Hey 100 members of the National Federation of Republican Women (Federation? Sounds classy!), Spanish is weird, poor people in bad neighborhoods speak it!....Yo, hombre! I shouldn't have said Spanish is from the ghetto, I should have said English rules and you should totally learn it! But Spanish is cool, check it, I've been learning it to reach out to you fast breeding LEGAL immigrants! Muchos gracias, de nada!"

This is the untenable position the GOP is in, the way the country is changing they can't keep winning national elections with white males. Even Bush understands this. But how do you reach out to other groups when so much of your message is based on dividing groups (GAYS! FEMINISTS! SCARY BLACKS! JOB STEALING ASIANS! DIRTY SPANISH SPEAKERS! IMMIGRANTS THAT I DO NOT PERSONALLY KNOW! OMG, DIFFERENCE!). It ends up causing candidates to publicly diss a language, and then dropping a YouTube video speaking that same language.

Its kind of like being an all around sleaze ball, like divorcing your wife as she gets cancer treatment or having an affair while you are leading an impeachment of a US President for having an affair, and then "confessing" about all of it to a conservative Christian POLITICAL leader to prep for a 2008 White House run. Eat it Federation, this man has your class right here.