Your rant against Newt is the kind of rant that Thomas Sowell makes fun of. That kind of rant would infuriate Reagan. Did Newt stray off the plantation intellectually while out of office? He sure did, and it was frustrating.
But he was damned effective in office and has some great plans if elected and he is absolutely the best at arguing for conservatism against any liberal. He has a 90% lifetime conservative rating and he forced Bill Clinton to govern far more to the right than did GWB with Newt’s replacement, Dennie Hastert, as Speaker.
But rant on. I’ll go out on a limb with Thomas Sowell and the father of REaganomics and some others. Just sayin....
In the meantime, re-read the "crazy" comment you responded to and SKIP the sentence where I say that Newt is not a conservative.
For the purpose of this lesson, I am willing stipulate that Newt IS a conservative.
Either way, just pretend that one sentence isn't there, and ask yourself if that one sentence was the point of my comment.
Here's a list of some others:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/