He is converting to Catholicism this weekend. Newt obviously wants to run for president in 2012, but with Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin in the race, the competition for religious voters on the right is going to be pretty stiff. Social conservatives constitute about half of the Republican Party.
Leave it to Newt to carve out his very own niche, i.e. Catholic social conservatives. Let Sarah and Mike split the protestants, and Newt can hold his own by scoring with Catholics. Newt figures that would neutralize the theocons, and he would pick up a majority of the rest of the GOP voters.
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