U.S. Primaries: Romney’s Worst Fault? He Speaks French!

The day after Mitt Romney’s big victory in New Hampshire, the camp of his rival, Newt Gingrich, refined its arguments against Romney in anticipation of the South Carolina primary.

After having attacked his past as a buyer and seller of businesses, the former Speaker of the House urged the voters of this Confederate and traditionally conservative state Thursday to scoff at him. “I don’t believe any moderate can debate Barack Obama successfully because there is not a big enough gap between the two of them,” Gingrich said during a public meeting at Rock Hill in front of about 250 partisans. “If you are going to defeat Barack Obama, you are only going to defeat him with a conservative.”

“What’s the only thing worse for a Republican than being called a moderate?” asks The Daily Beast, who put online the latest clip posted my Gingrich’s campaign team. “Being accused of speaking French,” responds the American site. In a video entitled “French Connection,” which assures that Romney “the moderate…will say anything to win,” the former governor of Massachusetts is compared to Democrat John Kerry, who, like him, speaks French. The American paper called it a “baffling” clip.

By winning in Iowa and New Hampshire, the two first stages in the process of appointing a Republican candidate for the presidential election on Nov. 6, Mitt Romney has reinforced his status of favorite; a victory in South Carolina would place him in an ideal position for the nomination.

Newt Gingrich, arriving in fourth place in the New Hampshire with less than 10 percent of the vote, is currently in second place in the polls in South Carolina behind the ex-governor of Massachusetts, who is taking advantage of the division within the conservative camp.

“I believe I am the only conservative who has the capacity to unify the conservative movement,” insisted Gingrich, alluding to his rivals Rick Santorum and Rick Perry, who are fighting him for the position of champion of the Grand Old Party’s right wing. And because of that, no argument seems to scare him.

Romney doesn’t need to worry. He can count on major supporters like John McCain — who is not very sure anymore, however, whether he supports Obama or Romney…