santorum s 14. how true are newt s claims of reagan by association? joining us now byron dorgan of north dakota. good afternoon. how are you? what do you remember of newt and reagan back in your house days? to hear newt tell it the cold war ended after reagan and newt discussed and mr. gingrich brought communism to the end in congress. he was a back bencher with a lot of grenades and throe as many as he could. i knew ronald reagan. i m a democrat. i knew newt gingrich. there s very similarity that i can see if their style and approach. he was a back bencher. bob doyle has said this.
big ideas. now it seems that planet earth is just not big enough. while making a stop in florida last night, newt may have presented one of his biggest ideas to date. a space colony on the moon completed by 2020, the end of his two-term presidency. we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be american. this is not the first time we ve heard mr. gingrich visiting outer space on the campaign trail. here he is over the summer when he had this to say. the you apply the money to incentives for the private sector, we would have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles. what we have had is bureau kra
si. he better start fueling his rockets now. i m joined by dr. neil tyson and the author of the upcoming book, space chronicle, i have it in my hand. newt says by the time of his second presidency, because he s easily going to be re-elected, he ll have station on the moon by 2020. is that possible? he admitted that s an ambitious goal. the mnay sayers are not the engineers. they recognize that certain ambitions might not be possible. he s going to have to change the nation s understanding and valuation of what sit to embark on those adventures. given the fact that he wants
he was a one-man band that rarely took advice high pressure he had a new idea every minute. newt would show up at my 96 campaign headquarters with an empty bucket in his hand. that was a symbol of some sort for him. i never did know why he was doing and i m not certain he knew either. was he carrying the bucket after he cleaned the bathrooms. what was going on here? i don t know. he did talk a mile a minute and have idea after idea. he was the person that began to poison the political waters. he said to republicans, if you re running for office as a republican, use these words. i ve tested them. use these words to describe your opponent, sick, lie, pathetic, anti-flag, anti-children, traitor. that when he suggested our politics should be.
romney s wealth? i thought it was the democrat who is was guilty of class warfare. no one is better aattack politics than newt gingrich i have to think the president is sitting back and smiling. the because it s coming from a republican and not just newt gingrich, it s coming from other republicans as well, it makes it all the more damaging and helps people understand there s a difference between capitalism, which we all support and the sort of taking and extraction that mitt romney and his type have been doing in this country. thanks so much for joining s us. next, it reads like a romance novel. newt and the gipper.