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11 December 2011

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What is the matter with you people? NASA finally finds a friend in Newt and it doesn't matter to you because he is not a Democrat. Your idealism is crippling our space program because your Democrat friends never pass on the opportunity to cut funding to NASA. Wake up!

Thanks for your comment. Sorry, I got caught up in holiday madness and neglected to reply.

I agree it's a bit complicated. I include a disclaimer about my own political bias, and in this post (on the entire blog actually) I try to be analytical but fair. (I can be very political, but not here on this blog.) To reiterate, I'm not criticizing Gingrich or his space policy - which, at least as I understand it, I generally agree with. Again, this post is about the media narrative about Gingrich - not about his merits or lack thereof as a candidate - and whether his media "story" might actually end up hurting, rather than helping, those of us who support NASA and other space endeavors.

In short, I am asking people to consider the possibility that Newt's support for the space program may actually end up hurting, not helping NASA (or more accurately, American space exploration beyond Earth orbit in general).

As for cutting NASA budgets, both parties have been guilty; NASA has supporters and detractors on both sides of the aisle. It's worth noting that the Republican-led House 2012 budget for NASA was smaller than the Democrat-led Senate, and both were smaller than the one proposed by Obama. Here are the stats:

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/09/19/nasas-budget-a-comparison/

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Thank you.

A new post on this subject is coming within a day or so. I generally wish to avoid politics on this blog since space exploration requires cooperation across the political spectrum and everyone gets plenty of politics elsewhere. But given the prominence of the "Newt and the moon" issue in the Republican nomination process, it will have an unavoidable impact on public perceptions of the topic, and hence why I'm covering it - hopefully in a non-partisan way, but I have to provide my best analysis.

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