Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich's Spacey Ideas: We Can Do Better

Attempting to bring Newt Gingrich back to Earth, Mitt Romney is attacking the former House speaker's past ruminations on private space projects.

"I saw the speaker had a measure to put a permanent colony on the moon, to mine rare materials from the moon," Romney said Friday in an interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board.

"I think we've got other priorities for our spending before we do that.

"(Gingrich) even talked about a series of mirrors that we could put in space that would light our highways. I've got better ideas for our resources."

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