back to hardball. now for the side show. making time for the colony in space. even in the midst of super tuesday that s right. newt gingrich found room for a visit to the u.s. space and rocket center in alabama. of course there have been a lot of jokes about newt s promise of an american colony on the moon if he is elected president. remember the snl sketch that made gingrich the president of a colony far, far away. then there was this zinger from romney in a recent debate. if i had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon i d say, you re fired. wow. well newt hasn t forgotten romney s jab. or that shot from snl. here he is yesterday at the u.s. space and rocket center. this isn t the end state of the space program. this is the launching pad for the next phase of excitement. governor romney said well if he had been in business and somebody came in with a big idea, that kind of idea he d