Newt Gingrich comes out swinging: 'This is a campaign for the very nature of the Republican party' | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Speaking in friendly territory -- before a tea party crowd of about 500 in Central Florida's bucolic Mount Dora -- the former House Speaker savaged Mitt Romney, the campaign ads that have been pillorying Gingrich across the state -- and his own Republican party.

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