Because it’s not relevant and nobody cares?
At least he coulda/shoulda married somebody who plays a patriotic AMERICAN instrument, like the Sousaphone.
The ages from 14 to 16 are formative years, if you know what I mean... wink, wink.
“spent several years in Orleans as a youth when his father was posted there as a soldier”
I think it’s pretty well understood that Newt went wherever his dad was stationed.
As a PhD in history, Newt probably was required to demonstrate reading knowledge of two or three foreign languages as a degree requirement. That doesn’t mean he can speak them. He might or might not be able to speak French, it depends on what he did in Orleans.
Well that does it for me. If a candidate speaks French, I simply cannot vote for him.
This is really becoming silly.
Newt speaks it with a strong Georgia accent so it’s OK.
Newt's just pushing the buttons he thinks people want pushed. The thing is, if you forget that much who you are and what you've done and believed it comes out looking cheap and contrived and lacking in class.
To be sure, Romney can't fault Newt on that -- he has his own "memory lapses," forgetting things that he's done and said and stood for in the past -- but the reaction is harsher when the guy with the faulty memory is attacking others, rather than defending himself.
Gingrich lived there as an Army brat, a few years before his dad went to Vietnam.
Romney was hiding out there, avoiding the draft, during his father’s campaign for President, while he was running as the anti-war Republican.
Having his healthy, draft age son living in America during his anti Vietnam Presidential run, could have been embarrassing.
Interesting.
Go Newt!
It was funny with Kerry. Not funny now.