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Related: About this forumSting was right, they DO all seem like game show hosts. Newt sure does.
Newt promises "cash, prizes, contests, and challenges" to spur the private sector into space exploration.
http://news.yahoo.com/newt-gingrich-says-cash-prizes-spur-space-technology-110131695--abc-news.html
I guess if you don't make it to the moon or Mars, you get a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni?
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Sting was right, they DO all seem like game show hosts. Newt sure does. (Original Post)
Denninmi
Feb 2012
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Love that song, and yes, Sting knows his politics and is always spot on!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Feb 2012
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Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)1. Love that song, and yes, Sting knows his politics and is always spot on!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)2. But the rabble likes prizes, right?
Frank Luntz said so during his seminar to the 1% on "relating" to "the little people".
Prizes dial tested WAY above jobs.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)3. Only one of them seems like a game show host to me.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)4. Funny coincidence
I was perusing some website with a list of political donations that celebrities make. The only celebrities that, as a group, donated mostly to repigs were game show hosts. (really!)
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)5. Exactly!!!