Newt Gingrich had another grandiose idea while pandering for votes from Florida’s Space Coast – a colony on the moon! Rick Santorum pointed out the obvious problem with the idea.
“The idea that anybody’s going out and talking about brand new, very expensive schemes to spend more money at a time when we do not have our fiscal house in order in my opinion is playing crass politics and not being realistic with the people of this country as to the nature and gravity of the problem,” Santorum said Thursday.
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“The idea at this point that we’re going to create any new expansive plan to create a new mission and fund that mission in any way that could lead to a deployment or development of that mission, I just think is similar to what Speaker Gingrich said the other night when he said he was going to create a new Social Security plan,” Santorum said, referencing a heated back-and-forth between him and Gingrich over the speaker’s plan for providing a private Social Security option. (Read More)
Gingrich has said that once 13,000 people move to the moon they can petition for statehood. Maybe he can run for president there.
Tags: colony, moon, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, space
It looks like Newt is out to cover every base in Florida! He’s got a new immigration plan and wants to reenergize the NASA program that has fallen largely into disuse in the past year.
He’s also keeping the heat on Romney, while dodging the heat of negative campaign ads and the escapee formally known as Nancy Pelosi!
We should know by the middle of next week if Newt is hot or just another flash in the GOP pan!
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I support this idea, though. I think all Liberals should go there and create their utopia. And they won’t have to worry about the gravity of the situation because–you guessed it!–there ain’t none.
Wouldn’t that be COOL?! We could have California back.
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With the media and Romney and Gingrich being very interested in petty political jabs, Santorum was the adult in the debate tonight by suggesting that the questions and answers be about the issues.
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Gingrich seems like a space cadet who gets more excited about traveling to the moon than about solving real problems like the people starving even in our own country. We have enough problems here on Earth before trying to create more on the moon.
Paul wants to legalize marijuana and prostitution. His foreign policy is very naive and we would be sitting ducks.
I am very much against being ordered to pay for health care I cannot afford. Let me get this straight: these families who are having a difficult time in this economy will be forced to pay for healthcare they can’t afford, and then forced to pay fines if they don’t? If they don’t have the money for the healthcare, where will they get the money for the fines? WHY is an ASPIRIN at a hospital in this country $100?? I would be happy to go to Walmart or wherever to buy a $3 BOTTLE of aspirin for these hospitals since obviously the people in charge of healthcare’s rising costs cannot figure out how much even an aspirin should cost!
Romney and Gingrich both want to FORCE Americans in this economy (without jobs) to have healthcare when they truly cannot afford it. Santorum has stated he is very much against forcing any American to do so.
Rick Santorum is by far THE BEST CHOICE of a President we have seen in a long time, and I hope people will gather together to support him to ensure that Obama is voted out. He will destroy Obama in any debate, and Santorum is a true leader with passion and moral values.
VOTE RICK SANTORUM FOR PRESIDENT 2012!!
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