Newt Gingrich says the attacks coming his way from the establishment GOP are serving to make his case that despite being a former House Speaker and a figure in Washington circles for decades, he’s actually an outsider.
This has always been a tough act for Gingrich to pull off — but he says the open war declared on his candidacy by the likes of the National Review are serving to make his case much easier to prove.
“I’m not trying to portray myself as an outsider,” Gingrich told the Des Moines Register‘s editorial board Thursday. “Look at the establishment in both parties. They think I’m an outsider.”
The Gingrich surge has really rattled the establishment GOP, which seems to be trying its hardest to shut Gingrich’s campaign down before it gets out of hand.
Gingrich sees parallels with another Republican presidential candidate most establishment figures grew to idolize after fearing.
“It’s a little like, somebody once said, ‘Ronald Reagan managed to serve as president for eight years but was never in Washington,'” Gingrich said.
