Gingrich promises U.S. moon base by 2020

Do they even have a shuttle replacement yet?

It'll never happen. We have to establish bases on the continental shelf first, to see how viable they are under adverse conditions. These'll be testing grounds before a moon base can be built and inhabited.

It's an election promise.....
"Elect me and I'll".......insert bullshit promise here.....
Which means there is no way in HELL this will ever happen!!

Gingrich is delusional. NOTHING he says will make sense, ever.

It's evidence of the contempt that politicians have for the voter. They think people are stupid enough to actually take this bovine excrement seriously. Unfortunately, they're right.

I'm not saying that Gingrich will follow through like Kennedy, but it'd be nice for the US and allies in space to have a grand plan to further our presence in the solar system.

Before or after he topples the Castro Regime?

Humanity's future does lay somehere out there. it's in our genes to explore and desire new horizons. However, I believe that future is not our immediate future but something that is distant centuries ahead. Oceanic colonization in our near future, orbital installations in the next century or so and then the beginnings of lunar colonization by carving habitats within the moon, and then Mars and carving habitats in the asteroids within the next five centuries. Slow and steady wins the race and minimizes casualty rates through misadventure.

Gingrich says (something GRANDIOSE! yet ineffably stupid......). A promise like this is almost as moronic as Michelle Bachmann saying that if she were elected President she single-handedly make gasoline cost less than $2 a gallon again.

My usual response to an average Gingrich speech, or to a typical GOP debate for that matter,

Crack: It makes you say stupid shit.