I hope you are fully aware of Santorum’s vicious attacks against Newt, while Newt has never attacked him.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/santorum-campaign-launches-gingrich-radio-attack-ad/
Jan 31, 2012
“The Santorum campaign is out with a new radio ad attacking Newt Gingrich, ABC News has learned.
The negative ad says Gingrich is not a “true conservative” and that is why he lost Tuesday evening to Mitt Romney in the Florida primary.
“The Florida results are in, and despite spending millions, Newt Gingrich went from a big lead to a big defeat. Why? Because voters discovered Gingrich wasn’t a true conservative,” the voice over reads.”
February 3, 2012
“Pro-Santorum Super PAC Ad Takes First Negative Shot at Gingrich
The Red, White and Blue Fund’s latest television commercial, called “The Only One,” will air in the Minneapolis market comparing Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to President Obama. The state’s caucuses are Feb. 7.
The 30-second spot shows images of Obama, Romney and Gingrich while the announcer says, “They’re not so different.””
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-santorum-attack-gingrich-half-trillion-dollar-lunar-221400819.html
February 3, 2012
“Santorum’s ad, which is running on satellite radio, according to the Hill newspaper, states that, “Reckless spending has led to $15 trillion of national debt. And what does Newt Gingrich suggest? Spending half a trillion dollars on a moon colony.” The ad goes on to provide a quote of Gingrich proposing the lunar base. Then it describes the idea as “fiscal insanity.””
It will be a chilly day in hell, when Gingrich chooses Santorum as VP
Santorum’s ad:”“Reckless spending has led to $15 trillion of national debt. And what does Newt Gingrich suggest? Spending half a trillion dollars ($500 billion) on a moon colony.”
FACTCHECK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFdr81Uttgg
Gingrich did not give a cost analysis of his lunar base proposal. The only figure he has given was $5 billion out of the actual NASA budget, as prize to be given to the first private group to establish a lunar base.
The Constellation program, which would have involved a human return to the moon by 2020, a lunar base thereafter, and eventually expeditions to Mars and to Earth approaching asteroids was estimated by NASA, according to a General Accounting Office report, to cost $97 billion through 2020. However the report suggested that NASA did not actually know how much Constellation would have ultimately cost. The GAO made some recommendations for NASA to refine the Constellation program to arrive at a more accurate cost estimate.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies suggested that the cost of a lunar base would be $35 billion under the Constellation program, including the development of the Altair lander, lunar habitation modules, and the costs of two Ares V launches to deploy the base. Operation costs of the base, which would have four people, would be just over $7 billion a year, to be shared by international partners.
Atlanta, GA — Newt 2012 National Security Advisor Stephen Yates shared the following statement in response to Senator Rick Santorum’s criticism of Newt Gingrich’s American space policy:
“I am deeply concerned that Senator Santorum so easily relinquishes space development to the Chinese and Russians.
“American success in space is not only about being the first to develop a station on the moon. It is just as much about the explosion of math, science, engineering and national security technology that will launch America into a new age of innovation and prosperity.
“We owe it to ourselves to set grandiose goals and then achieve them. It is the American way.”