Has this been covered? apologies if it has. Newt promises a Moon colony by 2020 if elected.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news...colony-by-2020

Moon base strippers with humongous boobies and 1/6 gravity will be awesome. Vote Newton Leroy.

Also, poor children will be exported to the moon to work as janitors.

**** that, no poors on the moon base.

Someone has to clean the vents, and moon colonies can't just let look the other way while people hop the fence

Nude moon maids, obv.

When you are not expected to win Florida (see intrade for odds) or the GOP nomination for that matter, you have to take risks. Besides dropping out of the race what would you do in his situation? Need Florida primary votes=support local industry. This seems like a good way to pick up extra votes there. As far as the actual idea itself, I am not commenting on it (others in this thread will/may do a better job).

He just wants a spaceship so his wife can visit her home planet.

I predict Obama surrendering the moon to the terrorists.

Newt really has lost it lately...He may go so far as to guarantee himself no real job in Washington again if he keeps it up.

mars , bitches!

I'm also just about ready to give up on the earth...

I like how NASA has received budget cuts almost every year since 1966 but he is going to magically increase its budget from less than a half percent to putting a colony on the moon....

Afaik, Hell is not a planet.

more realistic than his tax plan