{"id":2495,"date":"2011-12-15T19:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2011-12-15T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:49:51","slug":"gingrich-goes-lunar-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Goes Lunar, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the better political commentators out there right now are <strong>Margaret Carlson<\/strong> and <strong>Peggy Noonan<\/strong> (IMHO).  They both have a lot of insight into national politics.  And both made very some interesting comments recently about Newt Gingrich and the moon.  As you know, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich got into a little tussle at last Saturday night\u2019s GOP presidential debate about Gingrich\u2019s proposal to set up lunar colonies for mineral mining.  Romney cast it as a wacky, delusional idea while Gingrich defended it as visionary and inspiring, the bold stuff that makes America great.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after the Dec. 10 debate, Ms. Carlson wrote an essay reviewing Mr. Gingrich\u2019s recent eclipse of Mr. Romney in the GOP presidential stakes.  Despite her article&#8217;s broad scope, she selected a catchy article title focusing on the lunar controversy: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-12-14\/gingrich-no-loon-to-talk-up-trip-to-moon-commentary-by-margaret-carlson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gingrich No Loon to Preach Moon in Hard Times<\/a>\u201d.  Obviously, Ms. Carlson thinks that Gingrich\u2019s moon gambit will not hurt him, as it reflects that which makes him so attractive to the T-party factions that now \u201coccupy\u201d the Republican big tent.  I.e., the loony faction has found a fellow traveler in Newt, after brief flings with Bachmann, Perry and Cain. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203413304577086824255350642.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Noonan\u2019s article<\/a> was published in the Wall St. Journal just before <!--more-->the evening of the debate.  In it, she spoke about the apprehensions that Gingrich is causing amidst the old-school, not-so-loony sectors of the GOP.  In doing so, she was rather prescient \u2013 she appears to have predicted the Gingrich lunar issue a few hours before it landed!  Here\u2019s what she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What they fear is that he [Gingrich] will show just enough discipline over the next few months, just enough focus, to win the nomination. And then, in the fall of 2012, once party leaders have come around and the GOP is fully behind him, he will begin baying at the moon. He will start saying wild things . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey Peggy, pretty good!  A political commentator has to be ahead of the curve, and Ms. Noonan definitely was out in front of the moon thing. (Except that Gingrich is saying wild things well before the nomination . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the better political commentators out there right now are Margaret Carlson and Peggy Noonan (IMHO). They both have a lot of insight into national politics. And both made very some interesting comments recently about Newt Gingrich and the moon. As you know, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich got into a little tussle at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}