Jeff Lord is disappointed with both Romney and Santorum’s lack of space vision, though more so with Santorum:
Instead of Bain bashing, Santorum is attacking Gingrich over the ex-Speaker’s vow to return America to space exploration with a vengeance — in the form of a moon colony. An obvious intent to carry forward with the Reagan space legacy made all the more potent by the Obama administration’s deliberate halt to the very idea of a serious 21st century American presence in space. Appallingly, if predictably, Gingrich’s decision to carry forward with Reagan’s vision has already been mocked by the Obama-lite Romney. But Rick Santorum? The would-be “Authentic Conservative”? Bashing Ronald Reagan’s vision?
Emphasis mine.
As is often the case, he doesn’t seem to understand the new policy, because this is a gross mischaracterization of it. If anything, it was the first serious policy for American presence in space, in that the goal was to finally make it affordable to do so, which the Congress not-so-promptly undid with its insistence on a NASA-developed heavy lifter that will not in any way advance the goal while underfunding or eliminating funding for the things that will. I wonder if he is aware that Gingrich was actually supportive of the Obama policy?
Rand,
[[[I wonder if he is aware that Gingrich was actually supportive of the Obama policy?]]]
Probably none of the staff of the remaining candidates are aware Newt Gingrich supported President Obama’s space policy. Given the current climate in the Republican primaries if they were aware of it they would be using it to bash Newt Gingrich.
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted
Isn’t fainthearted the alternate definition of bureaucrat?
Not really. Eichmann was a bureaucrat.
Dying to know. Precisely what has Congress underfunded or eliminated that would make space access affordable? Answer, not even NASA knows.
If either one of these clowns makes it to the White House it’ll be time for an Einstein letter on space exploration. Or have Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Robert Bigelow, Burt Rutan, Paul Allen, and Pete Diamandis all have a meeting at the White House to explain the facts of life to the new president.