Are you a drive-by commenter, or do you want to get down into the details and explain your points of view?

If you don’t respond, we’ll have to assume you came here to contribute rhetoric, but nothing substantial.

If you do respond, you can do your part to elevate the discourse by laying out the rationale for whatever it is that you support. I’ll even go first – I support those things that lower the cost to access space. Notice there is no political affiliation there, and I really don’t care which party someone is from that shares my views. There are Republicans & Democrats that share those views, and Republicans & Democrats that are idiots for not sharing them. Get the point?

Now maybe you’re a Cain supporter – and that’s OK – but until there is a little “meat on the bones” for what he is saying, he’s just another politician flapping his gums on something that he’s not known to be an expert at.

So join the conversation, tell us what you believe, and stick around to not only defend it but win over converts.

“Just as sure as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are real and OJ didn’t do it.”

Rick what’s wrong with you? Okay OJ may have done it, possibly. BUT Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny???? Come on I saw them both with my own eyes.

“The reason there is a legion of people like me, who totally hate this commercial space direction, is because NASA apparently had to give up so much of the grand & noble stuff, just so that these crony capitalists can set up shop at flying millionaires out 200 miles up for ISS “vacation” stays!”
OOOOH! Be careful. You’re stealing some of ablastofhotair’s signature moronic platitudes. If you really give a damn about America’s future in space you’ll take the blinders off.

“And given that Cain leans heavier on his private commerce street cred than anyone else in the field, I suspect he would be far more likely to be a ComSpace booster than a BGR (Big Government Rocket) booster (pun intended). Picking BGR to the detriment of ComSpace would be so far outside of his particular character as a candidate I suspect he would do so merely as a ploy to get past the primary”

He’s a politician, so follow the money. If he starts recieving money from ATK, Lockheed Martin et cetera, you will see his space “philosophy” evolve to include them.

anyone who argues in any fashion for “SDI” or “Star Wars” or whatever notion one wants to put on the goofy idea of weaponizing space is in this time period goofy.

The problem in the US economy is to large measure that we are spending money lots of money on things which have almost no value to society, civilization or even American history. I dont know exactly what the total so far on “Bush’s wars that Obama has continued” but its in the many trillions…The US, Russia, and Chinese have figured it out; nuclear war is unwinnable in the conventional “win” sense of war…and to spend billions/hundreds of billions/trillions today on a “space shield” is simply asking for another arms race…or worse is simply asking to spend money the US does not have on a system that it doesnt need.

There are regional “nuke power” issues and they are going to be challenging over the next decade. The “nuclear farce” countries, countries with nuclear firecrackers that are more statements of “manhood” then anything else will not bat an eye with “Star Wars” because it would have no affect on them.

I dont know if Cain is just uninformed or is pandering to right wing idiots whose testosterone runs high until they actually have to think about going to combat (go see Whittington’s home page where he routinely post links to shows which are “muscle shows”)..but in any event both take him out of the serious space person. You might be able to help him become serious; but as long as support for “space weapons” is part of his rhetoric, he is simply one of the two choices above. RGO