Newt Gingrich Vows to Establish Colony on Moon

Republican presidential contender says he wants to offer prizes to stimulate investment in space exploration from the private sector

January 26, 2012 RSS Feed Print

COCOA, Fla. — Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president.

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Gingrich, the former House speaker, told an overflow crowd gathered on Florida's space coast Wednesday that he wants to develop a robust commercial space industry in line with the airline boom of the 1930s. He also wants to expand exploration of Mars.

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The pronouncements appeared to thrill the crowd of roughly 700 people. Florida's space coast is still suffering from a recent round of federal cuts to the space program.

But how would Gingrich pay for it?

The Republican presidential contender says he wants to offer prizes to help stimulate investment by the private sector.

 

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Nov 2012 pres election is a cinch for obama, right? Actually it is yes and no. It is all about perception and semantics. A few executive blunders follow below.

Obama supported building a muslim mosque near 9/11 site, repealed DADT in the military, has been instrumental in destroying the American Christian Church, nominated a homosexual to the supreme court, and supports homosexual unions. Obama and democrats have done squat for the economy.

Vice President Dan Quayle's moment of embarrassment happened as William Figueroa, 12, was the boy who knew how to spell "potato" even though Quayle insisted on adding an "e" to the end.

Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up and his statement, "I am not a crook."

The public loved movie star Ron so they voted him president. Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.

And lets not forget Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky sex scandal...most Americans commented that as long as he did his job as pres his sex life was not important.

There are many others, but hey the public does not care. If they like you, they'll vote for you even if you are campaigning in the nude. Most Americans are not interested in inherent critical issues, as long as they like you and have enough money to buy beer, watch a ball game on TV, and do what they want.....they'll vote for you. Californians liked movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger so they made him Governor of California. They did not care that he was born in Thal, Austria and spoke in broken English. They didn't care that he served in the Austrian Army...not the U.S. Army. They didn't care that he earned his BA by correspondence. And they did not care about his pappy: Gustav Schwarzenegger, (Arnold's father) Military service: Served in WWII with the German Nazi Army. He served with the Sturmabteilung (storm troopers) which functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party which played a role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920's and 1930's.

manoflamancha of TX 1:18PM January 26, 2012

do you have any idea that the average tax paying citizen in this country could care less about a colony on the moon, you just lost my vote you wacko, we want less taxes , not our government to waste billions of dollars on building a stupid colony on a rock that even if we ever lived there you couldnt go outside , learn what us regular people want and not what u think we need then maybe you could win an election , heck you could at least lie to us like Obama did.

scott of PA 10:55AM January 26, 2012

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