Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney: How Unamerican is it to be able to speak French?

Have the American Republicans gone completely crazy?

Uneducated = American?
Educated = Unamerican?

What’s going on here?

Being able to learn a foreign language should be seen as a quality of a candidate, right?

“Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has been skewered in a new political attack ad – for speaking French.

Correspondents say the highlighting of Mr Romney’s alleged French-language skills is an attempt to portray him as an elitist, European-style liberal wimp.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16549624

Second question:

How common is the anti-European sentiment among Republican voters?