To the moon, Newt!

I couldn't help myself. I'd apologize to Jackie Gleason, but he was a jerk.

Apparently, Newt's going to raffle it off. http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20120126/US.Gingrich.Moon/?cid=hero_media

If I had a spare $200 billion or so to invest I'd go for it. I hope he gives the winner a big trophy.

I hope that's one of the first things he does. That's where he's gonna send all the liberals.

Yeah Newt!

At least someone wants to restore our space program that our current president has destroyed!

Newt will find a way to stuff his pockets with greenbacks by selling tickets to Moon travelers.

Mulejack

You really believe that stuff, don't you?

Rick is my pick of the bunch, but rumor is that he is dropping out soon. I will always be locked into the anti-Obama mode until he is history as a president.

Floors me, too. But it's more of this extremist point of view so many people take today - that one side to an argument is totally good/right all the time and the other is totally bad/wrong all the time. "Sides" become more the moral compass than the things the sides actually do. I have no explanation for it, except it must just be the way many people are wired. They don't see shades of grey.

There are plenty of times I'd rather live there, but it Newt wins and actually accomplishes anything like this, I'll drink the Chesapeake Bay.

You're gonna need a real BIG glass...

I don't think Obama is financially appropriate for the country at all. Solyndra, electric flammable cars, green jobs, etc., etc.?? NASA would be money better spent.

Please, do elaborate.
When gasoline powered vehicles are crash tested, their tanks are emptied of fuel (replaced with an inert fluid).
The Volt was crash tested with a substantial charge (potential energy) still on board and then stored for three weeks - the SOP from the OEM is to drain the batteries within hours after a crash.
Wanna run a series of tests on gasoline powered vehicles with 3/4 loads of gasoline and roast marshmallows with me in the resulting mess? Yeah, me too.

I'm no fan of GM nor the Volt - my current avatar is of a Suzuki Wankel engine, FWIW - but I am an engineer, and it bugs me when someone repeats the bullet points presented by some lazy suit in a "news" studio.

Waste of good marshmellows. One must only roast them over a wood campfire. Great with Hershey's chocolate and Graham crackers.

Please pardon us ignorant ones who are not schooled in engineering.

If anyone is still interested in Newt, see this which I first saw in the Washington Post in Alexandra Perti's blog:

Newt is mainly famed, according to Newt, for his prowess as a historian.
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, by Newt Gingrich
0 AD: Birth of Jesus. A pretty good guy, but no Newt Gingrich.
476 AD: Rome falls. Newt Gingrich could have averted this.
1215: The English wisely take Newt Gingrich’s suggestion to write the Magna Carta.
1492: Newt suggests, winking, that Columbus sail the wrong way to India, “where I think you’ll find something very interesting.”
1533: Henry VIII decides to take the same number of wives as Newt Gingrich.
1602: Gingrich writes “Hamlet.”
1776: Inspired by “A Nation Like No Other” by Newt Gingrich, available now in hardcover on Amazon.com for just $11.25, the Founding Fathers write the Declaration of Independence.
1789: Newt’s suggestion that Marie Antoinette offer people cake does not go over with the French people as planned. Newt is bewildered (”“I’m always delighted to be offered cake.”)
1858: Newt Gingrich suggests a neat idea for debate formats to Lincoln and Douglas.
April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln ignores Newt’s advice to “stay home from the theater tonight, Abe, and read one of my books for self-improvement.”
1876: General Custer also ignores Newt’s advice.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents a great device that, later, will enable you to receive a robocall complaining about something Mitt Romney did.
1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright put one of Newt’s best ideas into practice, although they have to remove Newt from the plane to achieve liftoff.
1944: Eisenhower takes Newt’s suggestion to land troops at Normandy. Newt cannot accompany them as he is too busy killing Hitler.
1969: Neil Armstrong slowly begins putting Newt’s plans for a moon colony into practice.
1989: Newt knocks down the Berlin Wall.
1990: Newt tells Al Gore how to invent the Internet.
1995: The Best Speaker of the House of All Time takes office.
2013: President Newt Gingrich issues in a new era of peace, prosperity and moon colonies.
2045: Newt Gingrich is canonized, in what he describes as a “uniquely humbling experience for a great man of intellect and letters who has done what no other man in human history could have done because of his rare gifts.”
2060: Newt Gingrich defeats the Antichrist in a series of eight-hour marathon debates, issues in a new millennium of prosperity and revives entire economy on the strength of sales of his 19,568,020,836th book.
2100: Newt Gingrich ascends to heaven. Jesus respectfully gets up so that Newt can be seated.