Palin: Newt's secret weapon

Newt Gingrich has a new unofficial campaign surrogate and her name is Sarah Palin.

As the 2008 veep nominee sees it, Gingrich is getting a raw deal from the national media and conservative elite, the very same forces who conspired against her when she was on the national ticket. Palin hasnt endorsed Gingrich and has no official role in his campaign but she is repeatedly surfacing at just the right times on the national airwaves to vociferously defend him.

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Palin: Trying to 'crucify' Newt

In her latest appearance, Palin stated: Look at Newt Gingrich, whats going on with him via the establishments attacks, she said, though the original question was about Ron Paul. Theyre trying to crucify this man and rewrite history and rewrite what it is that he has stood for all these years.

Palin then called conservative writer Peggy Noonan hypocritical for recently calling Gingrich an angry little attack muffin.

They maybe subscribe such characterization of Newt via words like that, but they dont subscribe those to say Mitt Romney when he or his surrogates do the same thing, she said. Thats that typical hypocrisy stuff in the media that Ive lived with over a couple of decades in the political arena. So Im used to it.

But in order to help educate the rest of the American public, Ill articulate that it is hypocritical of the media to subscribe to one candidate and not another, that kind of angry attack muffin verbiage to one and not the other.

Though she declined to run for president in 2012, Palin still has a devoted following among tea party conservatives. Despite her non-endorsement, her views on the race have become crystal cle! ar as sh e has waged an insistent public campaign for Gingrich that cant be mistaken for anything but support for the volatile speaker and his ideas. As has usually been the case with Palin, her exact motives remain a mystery. But it does seem like the two Republicans share a common bond in suspecting the media and Washington power brokers are biased against them.

When asked about Palins unofficial advocacy for him on Friday, Gingrichs campaign had no comment.

But after Palin picked Gingrich in South Carolina, Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond told NBC News: We think its a pretty darn clear call to arms.

Palins husband, Todd, backed Gingrich just days before he won South Carolina, and right afterward, the former vice presidential nominee touted Gingrich as the leader of the GOP pack.

Gingrich rarely employs the use of official surrogates, lacking the organization of Mitt Romney, who frequently dispatches supporters to make public appearances. A surrogate that is doing so voluntarily is a plus for a campaign that is struggling to fend off a barrage of attacks.