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“The spaceship has landed.” â€" Steve Jobs, 2011

Note to Gingrich: To paraphrase from the movie “Joe Dirt”: The ’70s called, they want their space program back. Gingrich is the disco paragon: a conservative reaction to the ’60s in double-poly leisure suit, white patent leather belt and shoes and all the baggage trailing from the very end of a century of total war. Like David Bowie’s Major Tom, Newt is stuck in ’70s space-time. His comment re: the moon base, egging us on to get there before the Chinese, might be looked at in view of the singular American conservative genius barely mentioned in the Republican debates, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who saw the moon project as a stunt. It wasn't then, but it is now. China flies blindly to the moon with no purpose but competition with America, but it is a competition we do not share in.

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