Space travel emerges as wedge in Florida primary race

Fox News ^ | January 28, 2012

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....While Gingrich is floating space-travel plans at a staggering rate -- even for a candidate who's been teased for his frequently "grandiose" proposals -- Romney is proudly tamping down the dream.

After ridiculing Gingrich on Thursday for pushing expensive and allegedly outlandish proposals, the former Massachusetts governor on Friday suggested Gingrich was pandering. And, Romney conceded, he does not really have a space plan. Not yet, anyway. Rather, Romney committed to carefully creating one once he's president.

"In the politics of the past, to get your vote on the Space Coast, I'd come here and promise hundreds of billions of dollars -- yeah, you want to hear that, yeah. Or I'd lay out what my mission is, here's what we're going to accomplish. I'm not going to do that," Romney said.

The candidate said he is not going to tell Florida "what the mission will be," but "how I'm going to get there." He said he'd bring in experts from across the military, NASA, and leading institutions and businesses, and then create a plan.

It is a risky move on the Space Coast. Romney is trying to cast himself as the straight-talking, pragmatic and fiscally responsible candidate -- the one who doesn't just tell voters what they want to hear....

But Gingrich, based on the reaction of his audiences, seems to be feeding a spark in Florida. With the space industry facing massive layoffs following the end of the space shuttle program, Gingrich is urging Americans to dream big once again and likening his critics to those who would doubt John F. Kennedy or the Wright brothers.

"I am sick of being told we have to be timid," Gingrich told an enthusiastic crowd in Florida on Wednesday.

[LomanBill]

Heh. Watch out. It’s got huuuuuge pointeee teeth!

[LomanBill]

"Nobody will do it right until you get capitalists involved. "

 

Meanwhile, in reality land, err, Sea..

 

Sea Launch Concludes Investigation of Launch Failure

Long Beach, Calif., June 11, 2007 –The Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) has concluded its review of the findings of an interagency CIS Joint Commission, which has been investigating the cause of the unsuccessful launch of January 30, 2007....

http://www.sea-launch.com/news_releases/2007/nr_070611.html

How does The Company's newspeak dictionary define "unsuccessful", hmmm?