PJ: Just a thought...Gingrich is known as a 'Big Idea' man and as yet has not announced any "Big Idea" that many in his party or independents and certainly not liberals could really get behind. Or has he?
On January 18, 2012, Gingrich made this promise about putting Sarah Palin in his administration:
"“Certainly, she’s one of the people I’d call on for advice,” Gingrich said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president, but nothing has been discussed of any kind. And it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss it at this time.” http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/newt-gingrich-says-hed-ask-sarah-palin-to-take-a-major-role-in-his-administration/
Many conservatives recoiled at the prospect as did a majority of independents and an overwhelming majority of liberals.
On January 25th in a speech in Florida he promised:
"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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/jan/25/newt-gingrich-moon-base
This proposal left almost everyone scratching their heads including the conservative columnist Charles Krauthmann http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/28/krauthammer-moon-base-proposal-was-newts-dukakis-in-the-tank-moment/.
So the question remains? What is the "Big Idea" that Gingrich is promoting. Then it came to me and it was so obvious that I'm sure brighter minds have already put it together. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that about 80% of the American electorate would rejoice in his plan to deploy Mrs. Palin up to oversee his very important moon operation... provided, of course, that she were based there.
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