The fact that Newt has seriously considered giving any validity to the man-caused climate change/global warming premise has made me question his vaunted intelligence, because all one has to do is the math -- if we had detailed global-wide climate records for every single day of the past five million years, or even 20 million years, we still wouldn't have enough data to identify, let alone manipulate, indications of significant climate change on this ancient old earth in the context of the gnat's-breath amount of time fifty or even 1,000 human lifetimes represents. It is ludicrous on its face.
Happily, Newt has demonstrated the extremely rare and valuable quality of being able to own up to his mistakes (as opposed to flip-flopping, such as Romney's habit of saying one thing one day, and something different the next, without acknowledging that he ever held the previous position).
That tells me that it's entirely possible that Newt will figure out the math and be big enough to say, "Oops! Wow, I was wrong!" (and in fact he's already questioned the validity of the "science" behind global warming).
But more than anything else, the one thing Newt did to earn my willingness to overlook his gullibility on the Global Warming hoax, was his statement about colonizing the moon.
The nation that dominates space technology in the coming decades, will also have global military dominance. Of all priorities in the United States, its NUMBER ONE must be superiority in space. It's too bad that folks are so distracted by the romance and entertainment aspects of sci-fi space fantasies that they stupidly poo-poo the VERY REAL national security, technological, and military advantages of being THE world leader in space. IT IS CRUCIAL to our future success.
Now you, Krankor, you had better think long and hard on this one: 20 years from now, when your grandkids or great-grandkids are gazing up at the moon, how will you feel if they're looking at a Moon "owned" by China, or a moon "owned" by Russia? Because that moon, and Mars as well someday, WILL be "owned" by some nation or an alliance of nations, and if that alliance ISN'T American-led, then America will be an inferior, secondary power and our freedoms and liberties -- and those of your grandchildren and great grandchildren -- will be at the mercy of other nations, such as China or Russia.
Newt was SPOT ON with his vision for the moon, and people who laugh it off as "kooky" are as smugly deluded as they are short-sighted.
GODSPEED NEWT GINGRICH.
Well said, couldn’t agree more, Finny! Not to mention as Newt said today on Face the Nation, his moon plan would involve NO increase in federal spending. He is planning to repurpose the budget NASA already has as well as get private sector involvement in the mix. Last I heard NASA was busy studying things like global warming, so there is certainly room to reassign those funds to a moon base. It’s shocking that even people who call themselves conservatives would prefer to see us become a weak European socialist welfare state as opposed to becoming a leader in the ambitious, groundbreaking national security advantages with the side benefit of developing new technology that space travels offers.
Once again, you are right on Finny.
I watched Newt's Space Policy speech from Florida unedited on C-Span twice and it was clearly the most inspiring speech I've heard in the last ten years ...maybe more. I have e-mailed the link to the C-Span archive of the speech to many of my friends.
Here's the link: Newt Gingrich Space Policy
It gripes the hell out me that people who have no vision and probably did not listen to the speech at all, start parroting the mainstream media.
Newt's command of history is nothing short of incredible, but of course it's easier and much less mentally taxing to simply repeat Bishop Mitt Romney's slanderous sound bites.
Go Newt Go!!