After Sarah Palin told Newsweek that she has yet to be contacted about an appearance at the Republican National Convention, Newt Gingrich and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham agreed on Ingraham's show that that ought to change:

INGRAHAM: Should Sarah Palin be given a speaking role at the convention? Apparently she has not been invited to the convention and it looks like some people are trying to keep her from speaking. What do you think about that?

GINGRICH: Gov. Palin absolutely should have a speaking slot. She motivates and arouses an entire base and she is just – and I think she absolutely should have a speaking slot.

INGRAHAM: I think if she’s not invited to speak, it’s insulting to someone who’s taken the slings and arrows, as she has, and continued to slug away for all these candidates across the United States. You’re gonna be speaking, right Newt?

GINGRICH: Well, that’s up to the Romney people. I’m glad to do it if they want me to [inaudible] I would strongly support Gov. Palin being given a chance to speak for the country and I think she’d be very effective.

INGRAHAM: Well if you’re not speaking and Palin’s not speaking and Santorum’s not –

GINGRICH: Well, we don’t know that yet. Nobody knows anything yet. This is a period of anxiety, not a period of [inaudible.]