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In a recent campaign ad (embedded above) Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. Speaker of the House and GOP presidential hopeful, called out the primary front runner Mitt Romney for being a moderate, and a Republican in name only. And at the end of the ad Gingrich notes that, just like John Kerry, Mitt Romney speaks French.

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The criticism is somewhat odd coming from Gingrich, who lived in France from the age of 14 to 16.

The ad, an attack on Mitt Romney from the right, is a fairly strange tack for Gingrich, who spent most of Thursday getting bashed by conservative pundits for attacking Mitt Romney too much from the left. The previous ads were attacking Romney for making profits in the midst of layoffs during his time at Bain Capital. The most pointed criticism of Gingrich’s anti-Bain ads came from former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who asked “What The Hell Are You Doing?” on Fox News.

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