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Gingrich makes stop in Rocket City ("This is the launching pad for the future.")
WAFF ^ | March 6, 2012

Posted on 03/06/2012 12:25:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took aim at GOP rival Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama during a campaign stop in north Alabama.

Speaking at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Gingrich portrayed himself as a visionary leader and criticized Romney as a caretaker of decline.

Gingrich said Obama's energy policies are behind rising gasoline prices. He encouraged the audience to update their Facebook status with "Newt = $2.50 a gallon."

"We need to develop our own energy here so we don't have to worry about Iran and Middle East," he told the crowd.

"I said we should have an aggressive space program and got blasted for it," he continued. "This isn't the last phase of the space program. This is the launching pad for the future."

(Excerpt) Read more at waff.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: amexceptionalism; gingrich2012; gopprimary; spaceprogram
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GO NEWT!!


GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks to a crows at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (The Huntsville Times/Eric Schultz)

1 posted on 03/06/2012 12:26:01 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
My daughter works there, but is in Tuscaloosa this week making wedding plans. Oh well.
2 posted on 03/06/2012 12:30:20 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Newt understands how NASA and our science and technology drives the American spirit and economy. NASA needs to be revamped not destroyed like Obama and his Science and Technology Henchman, John P. Holdren (the population bomb co-author) are doing to take us to our knees.


3 posted on 03/06/2012 12:33:56 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

CW, I was going to start a thread, but I’ll post it here.

“Newt Gingrich, rocket man” - http://storify.com/campaignreads/newt-gingrich-rocket-man

It has some lighthearted tweets- and comments by Newt:

“This isn’t the end state of this space program, this is the launch pad for the next phase of excitement.”

“We are not going to go quietly into the night and allow the Chinese to dominate the future of space”

“Gingrich invites SNL to come to Space Camp in Huntsville to do another skit making fun of his moon colony idea”


4 posted on 03/06/2012 12:36:22 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: VinL

THANK YOU VinL.

I Just knew there had to be more.

Pictures too!

Bump!


5 posted on 03/06/2012 12:38:52 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: VinL

I’m still breathlessly awaiting the SNL “President Algae” skit. Stop holding my breath?


6 posted on 03/06/2012 12:40:15 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: VinL

7 posted on 03/06/2012 12:42:00 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

bookmark

VOTE FOR NEW TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY!


8 posted on 03/06/2012 12:44:41 PM PST by Marcella (Newt will bash Hussein in debates - Newt needs money.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

BEAUTIFU PICTURE!


9 posted on 03/06/2012 1:13:03 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

BEAUTIFUL PICTURE!


10 posted on 03/06/2012 1:13:14 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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Gingrich portrayed himself as a visionary leader and criticized Romney as a caretaker of decline.

This is actually a good way of expressing it.

If Romney is the candidate, he will never get elected...but if he somehow did, he has no plans for anything but doing what Obama is doing now, turning the US into an aging European-style welfare state where the economy and even private life are state-controlled. Whether Romney regards himself as the fulfillment of a Mormon prophecy or Obama regards himself as the fulfillment of a Muslim prophecy, the end result is the same.

And it's not the US of A and it has no future.

11 posted on 03/06/2012 1:16:03 PM PST by livius
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; kalee; TitansAFC; LuvFreeRepublic; Sea Parrot; SweetCaroline; matthew fuller; ...

NEWT'S IN ALABAMA!

12 posted on 03/06/2012 1:16:45 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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NEWT GINGRICH - THE TRUTH,
by Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, Art Laffer, J.C.Watts, & Rush Limbaugh.

13 posted on 03/06/2012 1:18:14 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

No worries- my pleasure.


14 posted on 03/06/2012 1:32:53 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: onyx

This is a fantastic video!

They need to make a very compressed version and buy airtime for it wherever they can.

Gingrich does have a very American story, for one thing, and I think a little more projection of this could help public perception of him (Army brat, going from a community college professor to a candidate for political office because of his principles, etc.)


15 posted on 03/06/2012 1:33:00 PM PST by livius
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To: trappedincanuckistan

That’s probably a good idea. -:)


16 posted on 03/06/2012 1:34:39 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: livius; onyx; All
This is a fantastic video! They need to make a very compressed version and buy airtime for it wherever they can.

Just the last 2:30 would be a great ad.

17 posted on 03/06/2012 1:37:45 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Where is the teleprompter???


18 posted on 03/06/2012 1:37:56 PM PST by jrestrepo (See you all in Galt's gulch)
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This is priceless! -- Newt debates Barack! (pass it around)
19 posted on 03/06/2012 1:38:48 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: jrestrepo

Newt don need no stinkin teleprompter!


20 posted on 03/06/2012 1:39:58 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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