Powerful ideas are at stake.

Next week is a big week. It will confirm or disavow, for me,  America's capability to vote for ideas or against empty promises. Why? Because next week is the Florida primary and it is likely the winner will become the republican POTUS nominee. Gingrich is the candidate of ideas. Grandiose maybe, but so was Kennedy when he announced that America would land a man on the moon and return him to earth before the end of he decade. It is hard to remember how grandiose that must have sounded, now that we accomplished it. It was only a subject for science fiction movies 50 years ago.

Here is a conversation heard many-many years ago too. "What shall we do? The British are becoming unbearable. We need to start our own country, with our own constitution." Now that was a grandiose idea.

Gingrich announced that if elected he would restore America's capability to launch our own communication satellites. You may remember that Obama killed our programs and now America must use Russian or Chinese firms to launch satellites. Satellites are what we use to transmit confidential data from place to place.

Gingrich also announced a renewed commitment to space - A colony on the moon within 8 years. He also announced he would initiate government funded prizes for critical innovations. Bendix established a prize of $15,000 for an airplane race in 1931. Doolittle won it. Doolittle was a pioneer in the development of flying on instruments-called blind flying in the early days.

Lindbergh won $25,000 for the first trans-Atlantic flight. Aviation was accelerated by daring people eager to prove new innovations. Gingrich suggested America could ignite the spirit of innovation again. How about $100 million for a cancer cure? It would be a bargain and save billions of dollars in medical expenses. $100 million for a diabetes cure?

You get the idea. Gingrich is about ideas. I like it.