Vote Gingrich and he'll leave Earth

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laresThu 26/01/12 21:18

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

"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."

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If he's willing to leave, I'm willing to help pay.

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