I'm about to spew my opinion so be warned

"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

Newt Gingrich said that the other day.  Let's take a closer look at this. 

....if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America.......   

I'm assuming he is talking about voting Obama out and getting all this socialist/hippie/communist/Nazi nonsense out of the White House.  I'm assuming he means bringing someone to office who will implement changes that would be positively received by the evangelicals he was speaking to at the time. 

...by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country...  

Again, I'm making assumptions as to what he means, but I think he's trying to say that when his grandchildren are in their 70's that there will not be a majority of Christians in office.  In fact, the majority of people in office will not use religion when making decisions.  But, isn't our government supposed to be free from religion?  I've been told by the conservatives that I'm supposed to use Judeo/Christian ethics when interpreting the Constitution because the men who wrote it were Christian and must have meant for these things in a religious context.  But, if they did, why didn't they include Bible quotes or some type of prayer?  And if they did mean to have our Constitution read as a guide for a Christian nation, why did they include a separation of church and state?  Why did they include the right of a freedom of religion?  If they wanted a Christian nation why not just say that?  Moving on....

.....potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.......

 

Wait a minute.  You just said "secular atheist country"  but it dominated by Muslims?  Wouldn't that make it an Islamist nation?  Maybe he means that since Christianity is the only true faith, Muslims are essentially atheists since they're not doing it right.  Or, he could be using the term "Islam" in place of, oh, "terrorist" or "Arab".  Which I think is more likely.  However, his audience would have accepted this racism because they're scared.  Even though Jesus is a prophet in the Muslim faith, just not THE prophet. Jesus lived in the middle east, he would look like an Arab. If Jesus was trying to board a plane in the US he'd be chosen for a more intensive search.  At any rate, this is a racist statement meant to frighten the people who came to hear him speak. 

......with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

 

Newt, do you know what it meant to be an American in 1900, 1865 or 1780?   I wasn't alive in 1920, my grandfather was 3, he can't tell me what it was to be an American in 1920.  I don't know what it once meant to be an American 60 years ago.  Without having lived through that era, I can't really understand the mind-set.  I can hear people talk about and I can draw my own conclusions, but I won't understand it without having been there.  

Here's what I think:  Newt Gingrich is on this third marriage.  His current wife is 22 years his junior.  He cheated on both of his previous wives.  He was actively involved in an affair when he was campaigning to impeach Clinton, which got started because Clinton was unfaithful to Hilary. 

So, the adulterous Christian is telling the people he wants to vote for him that radical Muslims are going to take over our country and take away their Bibles.  Oh, it's gonna be a FUN campaign!  Get the popcorn!

Okay, the Hip Housewife will close her yap about her political views now. She'll be getting a new power cord for her Mac this week so she'll be able to update regularly again and will be doing another video.  She'll probably be doing more speaking about herself in the third person because she thinks that's funny.  

Amanda's beauty tip of the day:  Lice prefer clean hair.  If there's been an outbreak in your family, keep it dirty while you treat bedding, couches, etc.  and the buggers won't be interested in your tresses