Consensus opinion in the office this morning was that Gerd was drunk off his kiester last night.
This was what me and the missus thought when we saw him on the TV at 20.15 local time, when he laid into the interviewer for alleged negative reporting, and also shocked the other party leaders. Strangely unprofessional of him, we thought. He's said to be able to hold his booze pretty well, but maybe he had a glass or two over the limit when the results came in. Westerwelle - that shifty little shirt-lifter - implied as much.