After the defeat of homosexual lobby in Houston yesterday, I was reminded of the so-called 80-20 principle, and I thought it might have a counterpart in politics. Newt Gingrich liked to talk about getting 80 percent on an issue as a campaign strategy. The margin of victory was not that high in this election, but what if it could be? This is thinking like Gingrich.
Gingrich could not pull it off in 2012, but that is because he could not find a way. What way, then? It could come from finding a way to link a lot of conservative issues together in such a way as to give the kind of result seen in Houston.
The left has gained a lot of ground this way. They do it through trickery. The average person does not support the madness that so often typifies the left wing agenda. The failed ordinance in Houston is an example of the madness that was decidedly shot down. If you can show the madness is not just isolated to this issue, but the entire left wing agenda, you could have the makings of a landslide. That is what Gingrich was after.
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