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The Founding Fathers and Reagan come pretty close to perfection, don't you think?

You are delusional if you believe that. The Founding Fathers were very flawed human beings who got one idea very right. Ronald Reagan was great because he knew his own limitations.

He too focused on a very few important ideas. Most of the Newt haters around here would probably be blasting Ronald Reagan if he was around today. He'd be too "Liberal" for them. He supported AIDS research, had "gay" friends and son, he did very little to advance the Conservative cause of "Right to Life," he appointed Sandra Day O'Connor out of "Affirmative Action," not out of merit (which damaged a lot of our Constitutional rights).

Newt has been every bit as important to the Conservative cause as was Ronald Reagan. Your assertion that the Republican Revolution would have occurred without Newt is mindless conjecture. It was because of Newt (and Rush) that the Republican Party became focused on taking back Congress. It was his plan that rallied both Republicans in Congress and the American people.

Newt is Newt. When he is wrong, he can be very wrong, but when he is right-which he mostly is-he is very right. Your efforts to demonize him border on the irrational.

Reason, not raw emotion should govern Conservatives. That is the primary difference between Conservatives and Liberals. That is why we see the flaws in the "feel good" ideas that Liberals promote and that is the reason that Conservative solutions succeed where theirs fail.

The Founding Fathers only got ONE idea right? Which ONE is that?

I voted for Reagan and would vote for him again if I could. You are wrong in saying he did little to advance the Right to Life.

Reagan's position regarding the sanctity of human life evolved to being 100% pro-life over time and he did plenty to advocate it.

He said "I notice that everybody who is pro-abortion already has been born."

In his 1st. year as CA. gov. in 1967, the legislature passed a bill legalizing "therapeutic" abortions. It was an issue he hadn't thought much about & he was torn over whether to veto it. Many Repubs strongly urged him to sign it including members of his staff. Reagan was assured it would result in only a handful of abortions.

His instinct was to veto the bill & the Catholic archbishop of LA urged him to do that, but he signed it into law. He was disturbed by his decision & continued to think deeply about abortion.

By 1980, Reagan had changed his mind and become a firm opponent of abortion insisting on a pro-life plank in the Repub platform for the first time. In 1983, he wrote a passionate pro-life book, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation. Signing this bill was the only political mistake that he ever admitted.