Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe All in the spirit of unabashed narcissism, several Republicans stepped to the plate and served up some understatements this week. These are moments in which a speaker makes an issue seem very, very small. But what about when an issue makes the speaker look very, very small, such as former Sen. Rick Santorum, who mentioned this week that both former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney "fell for the global warming hoax." Advertisement This was during a debate that took place Friday, when it happened to be 50 degrees in New York. All that aside, Romney and Gingrich went toe-to-toe on immigration and their own financial wealth with Gingrich trying to score with his line that Romney was "comparing a tiny mouse with a giant elephant," in terms of their comparative worth. Romney took a crack at an understatement, as well. Gingrich got the ball rolling first, bringing out the hankies and the violins with a groping of the heart strings by saying it was unreasonable to deport grandmothers and grandfathers, poor things. Romney shot back, "Our problem is not 11 million grandmothers. Our problem is 11 million people getting jobs that many Americans [and] legal immigrants would like to have." Advertisement Rep. Ron Paul of Texas also gave it a shot. In a discussion about spending priorities, Paul said, "We don't need a bigger and newer [space] program. Something else deserves a lot more priority than going to the moon." Then he landed the coup de grace: "I don't think we should go to the moon. I think maybe we should send some politicians up there," he said.
