Politico reports that the “bad Newt Gingrich” is back. It was inevitable. It’s also why Newt Gingrich is not going to be the next president of the United States.

“I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress,” Gingrich said this week on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. (What?)

“I’m going to be the nominee,” he informed ABC News while in Iowa.

“The degree to which I challenge the establishment and the degree to which I’m willing to follow ideas and solutions to their natural consequence without regard to Republican or Democratic political correctness makes me probably the most experienced outsider in modern times,” he told Radio Iowa.

Seriously? This man is so full of himself, it’s only a matter of time before his campaign implodes. Again.