Republicans plan moving tribute to Neil Armstrong at GOP convention

[Patsy Stone]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194091/Republicans-plan-moving-tribute-Neil-Armstrong-GOP-convention-did-TV-networks-ignore-death.html

"Republicans will pay a moving tribute to the late astronaut Neil Armstrong at the GOP convention on Tuesday. 

"The backdrop of the stage at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Florida will be decorated with pictures of the first man to walk the moon."

Ignore the fact that this is from the Daily Mail, a rabidly RW UK paper. Focus instead on the many ways this tribute is so hypocritical, ironic, and desperate. Here are just a few:

1) He was an incredibly private, non-political man they're going to politicize.
2) He was a hero who would not have achieved what he had if it weren't for a huge government initiative.
3) Most GOPers do not believe in science -- or a need for NASA.
4) When you've got nothing, try jumping someone else's popularity train.

Shameful and shameless at the same time. It's a twofer!

[rfranklin]

1. One of the greatest triumphs of "big givernment" in the history of the world...

Guys like Romney would have turned their noses up at the project. After all, where was the big return?

[Blue_Tires]

3. it's also a triumph of "big science", too

[jberryhill]

6. They did more than "turned their noses up"

[Patsy Stone]

10. I had no idea the moon was a planet!

Live and learn.

[Blue Idaho]

2. The Saturn 5? Yeah, he didn't build that...

You can thank government programs for Americans walking on the moon.

[Flashmann]

4. More

5) Had they been around,at the time,they would have cut funding for the moon launches.

[vademocrat]

5. Are they going to remind everyone that he was a government employee?

[LiberalFighter]

7. I wonder if Neil would had wanted a moon landing to land on all of those Republicans?

Or blast off in the middle of their convention while they were within 200 feet of the blast.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Borrowed interest

It's disgraceful that the republicans are appropriating
Neil Armstrong's heroism for their own political purposes.
Apparently Armstrong resisted supporting any political party
while he was alive. Now that he's dead and can't speak for
himself, Republicans wrap themselves up in his memory
like a cheap flag. These republicans are disgusting.

[HopeHoops]

9. "When the great Ronald Reagan sent the first man to the moon..."

You know the rest.

[jsr]

11. Armstrong was nonpartisan

In fact, he spoke at length about JFK's vision in the Australian interview.