One question: why?
Video courtesy ThinkProgress
Okay, I get it: Gingrich's "we will have a moon base by the end of my second term" was a blatant pander to the Florida Space Coast folks who might feel a bit unmoored now that the shuttle program is retired. But I mean... Why? What's it going to do?
Is it because it would creat jobs and, I dunno, be neat? Okay, but establishing a permanent moon base ought to involve some specifics, don't you think? I mean, something more than, "I'm tired of being told America has to be timid."
If Gingrich is going to try to paint Obama as "timid", that's a line of attack that may not work too well, as Obama himself previewed in the State of the Union last night, and, a little more covertly, as SEAL Team 6, on the order of the Commander in Chief, proved in Somalia just the other night.
Let's see. Killing the top global terrorist and rescuing an American aid worker and a Danish citizen, versus a moon base. One is certainly not timid, and one is just an oddity. (Come on -- it was that, or it was this).
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