Newt Gingrich: Sarah Palin Must 'Slow Down' And 'Think Through What She's Saying' (VIDEO)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took to morning television Tuesday to offer advice to fellow potential 2012 GOP presidential contender Sarah Palin, telling the former Alaska Governor to "slow down" and be more cautious in the wake of her response to criticism following the shooting in Arizona.

"I think that she's got to slow down and be more careful and think through what she's saying and how's she's saying it. There's no question that she's become more controversial," Gingrich said on ABC News's "Good Morning America." "But she is still a phenomenon. I don't know anybody else in American politics who can put something on Twitter or put something on Facebook and automatically have it become a national story. So she remains, I think, a very formidable person in her own right."

Following the rampage in Tucson, Ariz. that left six dead and 13 others wounded, Sarah Palin sought to counter accusations that her inflamed political rhetoric may have motivated the alleged shooter, charging the media with carrying out a "blood libel."

After fielding taking her knocks for the anti-Semitic nature of the term, Palin returned to the airwaves Monday, telling Fox News's Sean Hannity that a "blood libel" was "exactly what was going on."

A recent poll showed widespread dissatisfaction with Palin's handling of her address, with both President Barack Obama and the media receiving much higher approval ratings for their responses.

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Comments

[SCeditor]

02:28 PM on 01/22/2011

That's like the pot calling the kettle black.

[keyman125]

11:02 AM on 01/22/2011

"...........and think through what she's saying and how's she's saying it." I believe the operative word here is "think". You have to have a brain to think. Maybe she should follow the yellow brick road with the tin man and find a brain. Oh I forgot that should be easy as she is already in the Land of OZ!!

[Steelsil]

02:14 AM on 01/22/2011

I wonder just how deeply Newt thought through trying to impeach Clinton for adultery while Newt was committing adultery?

[whispurr]

11:20 PM on 01/21/2011

Transparent translation: Newt will choose Sarah as his VP pick.

[iconoclast6]

05:21 PM on 01/20/2011

Tahr-dd gets caught with his toesies wandering in sopme strange tundra...

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/01/20/2011-01-20_todd_palin_sarah_palins_husband_in_sex_scandal_with_massage_therapist_shailey_tr.html?r=news/politics

And check out who he's wandering in! Who'd-a thunk, Tahrddy Tahr-dd is a FA at heart!

[RapidProf]

11:04 AM on 01/22/2011

FA? 'scuse my ignorance.

[mick621]

01:03 AM on 01/20/2011

for all the wrong reasons newt is right. then again he is maybe only person i consider has potential to be an even more dangerous president then Palin

[Steelsil]

02:16 AM on 01/22/2011

I wonder how many people noticed that Newt recently gave a speech advocating invading Iran?

[mivogo]

12:38 AM on 01/20/2011

Gee Newt, you know who else can put something on Twitter and Facebook and have it become a national story? Paris Hilton. Perhaps you can consider her for VP in 2012.

[mick621]

01:06 AM on 01/20/2011

we would be here all week trying to figure out whether newt or palin would be a more dangerous person to hold the job of president.

[warriorwoman73]

07:05 PM on 01/20/2011

No contest. As dangerous as Newt is, we'd be safer with him than with the Tundra Tart at the helm. She couldn't run her own state, for God's sake.

[Pamela Lake]

11:52 PM on 01/19/2011

"I think that she's got to slow down and be more careful and think through what she's saying and how's she's saying it."

Well no kidding Gingrich. Half of America could have told you that two years ago.

[Steelsil]

02:17 AM on 01/22/2011

True, but it's the pot calling the kettle black.

[LittleMittens]

10:27 PM on 01/19/2011

Gingrich...another washed out conservatwit who is too old to run, spent too much time spouting rhetoric from the sidelines instead of actually holding office, all the while making a pretty penny for himself, and married and divorced three times...yes, sarah, quitter from Alaska, this is how you do it...because conservatwits are all about making money, while not making a difference...

[thatbrothasmoove6]

09:28 PM on 01/19/2011

No she musn't!! Do you, baby! Run, Sarah, Run!!!

[GlobalCtzn]

09:09 PM on 01/19/2011

She is not going to slow down, she is going to go SUPER NOVA.

It is going to make a big splatter mess when it happens :)

[indy girl]

02:20 PM on 01/20/2011

Not only that, she is going to do it against all sane advice. But narcissists are always smarter than people advising them, dontcha know!?

[LMKay66]

08:47 PM on 01/19/2011

"So she remains, I think, a very formidable person in her own right."
 
Not in her 'own right,' Newt.  She is a media-created celebrity.  If the media ignored her, as they should have done after the 08 election was over, she would have been the nothing she always has been. 

[LMKay66]

08:40 PM on 01/19/2011

I've got some advice for Palin.  G O  A W A Y.  Go home.  Take care of your children and raise them right.   Your family and this entire country will be better off for it.

[tagtron]

08:30 PM on 01/19/2011

Slow down? The Tundra Tart waited 5 days to respond to thr fallout from the Tuscon tragedy. Of course, she was just waiting until the day of the Memorial, so she could release her pre-recorded list of reasons that she was the actual victim in advance of the POTUS' speech

[SaquaroSue]

07:23 PM on 01/19/2011

I think the best advice for her would be in the vein of "better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."