Now I know why Gingrich lost the bid for the nomination

It was when he came out in favor of a moonbase.  Why?  It wasn't because it was a bad idea.  Actually, I thought the speech was quite good.  But it wasn't an 80% approval item that he had advocated before.  Gingrich claimed that victory was assured if you can run on 80% approval issues, which he said he did with the Contract With America.  You won't see a moonbase on the top issues in this campaign.  A moonbase may not make 10% in the polls.

So, what should he have done?  It's kinda hard to come up with 80% issues.  But one came to mind just recently.  I think that if you took a poll you could get over 80% of Americans who would be against eating dogs.