Newt Gingrich promises moon base by the end of his second term

Newt Gingrich promises moon base by the end of his second term

"To infinity and beyond!" is the theme of Gingrich's latest campaign pitch: a lunar colony within eight years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/jan/25/newt-gingrich-moon...

Wednesday 25 January 2012 23.36 GMT

Newt Gingrich Coral Springs Florida
'By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American' ... and this big? Photograph: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images

There are two givens in any election campaign: 1) the candidates will make grand promises that they can never keep and 2) they will pander to their audience at every opportunity.

But on Wednesday, Newt "grandiose is my middle name" [it isn't] Gingrich took those truisms on to a whole new, extraplanetary level. Speaking to an audience on Florida's Space Coast ahead of the state's primary next week, the big-thinking Republican hopeful turned his science fiction fantasies into a hard and fast campaign promise.

"By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American," he said. According to Talking Points Memo Gingrich went on to say that the base would be used for "science, tourism, and manufacturing" and to create a "robust industry" modelled on the airline business in the 20th century.

And from there, how could a president ever top that? Well, that would be a mission to Mars obviously, said Gingrich - or Newt Lightyear as my colleague Richard Adams has now dubbed him.

Some reporters in the room undoubtedly would have known that they were witnesses to a historic moment: Gingrich finally losing his mind. But that's not how Newt saw things, according to Andrew Kaczynski from Buzzfeed Politics.

Of course, Newt has aired his space musings in public before. In December, he defended his policy in favour of lunar mining during one of the live televised debates. Then of course there are his repeated warnings over the dangers to America from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by a nuclear warhead detonating in space.

By all accounts, Gingrich's promise drew huge applause on the Space Coast. On Twitter, a far more forbidding place at the best of times, the response was more sceptical. The Guardian's Ana Marie Cox immediately raised one obvious drawback:

Philip Klein, of the Washington Examiner, was slightly more charitable.

But while the small-minded, earthbound mainstream media may mock, Gingrich can be sure of one thing. If he can pull off a feat as unlikely as winning the Republican nomination, beating Obama in November and going on to secure a second term, anything is possible.

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Comment by Nikki on January 26, 2012 at 3:06pm

Why wait? Let's send Newt to the moon right now.

Comment by Tara on January 26, 2012 at 11:03am

A lunar colony, lol. Hey, on a positive note, we'll have a place to send all the lunatics like Newt when the time comes to imprison the fools on the hill and their bosom buddies on wall street. Send them to the moon.

Comment by DTOM on January 26, 2012 at 9:28am

Just what Americans want to take their minds off the defecit/ financial collapse, total corruption in Government and deliberate and systematic destruction of the Constitutional Republic - 2 terms of Newt Gingrich!

Now, excusing the pseudo theocractic oligarchy that America would become under such a POS, I ask this.

Pray, where is the money going to come from, to finance the construction of this lunar fortress and mining facility, that of course, has nothing to do with the militarization, weaponization and control of space and mineral wealth in the solar system?

Hmmm, the state is going to be 'detaining' a lot more 'criminals*', 'dissidents**' and 'terrorists***' in the next few years.

I bet Newt has a plan for them...hmm, [thinks] I wonder 'who' is actually going to do construction work/ mining on this moon base.

* Marujauna users - medical, recreational or religous.

** People that visit the wrong website/ read the wrong book, listen to/ watch the wrong audio/visual information.

*** People that dare to exercise free speech or protest...or said the wrong thing at the wrong time and were informed on or arrrested by the state.

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