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Promising The Moon of the Day: On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
[politico / @alexNBCNews / photo: floridatoday.]
TO THE MOON BASE!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydmjn75P51qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Promising The Moon of the Day: On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
[politico / @alexNBCNews / photo: floridatoday.]
TO THE MOON BASE!
Old, but I don’t care.
SECOND TERM?? GOD HELP US
yes gingrich because this is our number one fucking priority right now
Aside from literally flushing billions...toilet, is actually building a structure and...
he is a fucking moron.
oh yeah, thats cool....economy is in ruins....global...
America…… F YEAH!
Possible within eight years? Maybe. Technology tends to grow at an exponential rate. Possible at all without completely...
Why? WHY? All that money, for what, so we can shake our balls at...jobs and...
Public-private, eh? Why does...hate capitalism? ;)
Public-Private fool. Read yo details!
This is my opinion on Newt talking about a Moon base when the country (and the entire world) is facing financial ruin....