Jeb! Bush is with Newt Gingrich. Specifically, he's on board with Gingrich's 2012 campaign promise to
colonize the moon.
Campaigning in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Mr. Bush professed a soft spot for the idea. “People started laughing,” he told voters at a town hall-style event, recalling Mr. Gingrich’s remarks. “And I’m thinking, ‘Really?’ I think it’s pretty cool.”
Okaaayyyy ... "Pretty cool" is the standard for policy now? But this is the best part:
Yet, citing the significance of space travel to Florida, where he served as governor, Mr. Bush wondered aloud what was “wrong about having big, aspirational goals.”
“It’s not in the absence of taking care of the hungry or the poor,” he said. “We’re a big country, we’re a generous country, and the benefits of this are far more than people realize.”
Fixing structurally deficient bridges is too big and aspirational a goal for today's Republicans. Funding schools is too big and aspirational for Republicans. But we're going to colonize the f'ing moon?
And "It's not in the absence of taking care of the hungry or the poor"? Really? So Bush is going to colonize the moon only after expanding nutritional assistance, expanding unemployment insurance, expanding Medicaid, expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, and raising the minimum wage, I guess? I didn't think so. Then again, he's not colonizing the moon, either—but at least he'd like to do that.