Now it is the GOP grassroots base vs. the GOP establishment. OH HOW SWEET IT IS!

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2. Newt Gingrich continues with "populist vs. establishment"; offer to Palin

Newt Gingrich Says He’d Ask Sarah Palin to Take a ‘Major Role’ in His Administration

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/newt-gingrich-says-hed-ask-sarah-palin-to-take-a-major-role-in-his-administration/

A day after winning a partial endorsement from Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich said today he would ask the former governor of Alaska to play a “major role” in his administration should he make it to the White House.

“Certainly, she’s one of the people I’d call on for advice,” Gingrich said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president, but nothing has been discussed of any kind. And it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss it at this time.”

“I’m just delighted that she and Todd have been both of them so supportive of my candidacy. And they recognize that, you know, I’m a Tea Party Reform conservative. I’m not part of the Washington establishment,” the former speaker said. “And I think that’s the signal that her endorsement last night really sends.”

Though Palin didn’t officially endorse Gingrich, she said on Fox News Tuesday that she would vote for him if she were a South Carolinian.