Newt Gingrich is thinking about running for president, and has predicted the future:
I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
The next election is going to be hilarious, except for the painful face-palming.
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