[frannie]

I have often wondered what a neocon is. I didn't know whether I am one or not, so I looked up 'neo' in the dictionary. I know what conservative means.

I have decided I am not a neo con [sounds like a bad word].

Here is the definition of 'neo':

neo- prefix -now,recent/a later revival of / recently
discovered or developed

I did not recently discover conservatism, nor is it a revival of an idea formed long ago and is just now being revised.

I have been a conservative , when it certainly wasn't popular, since I was 17 and am now 81.

Maybe we should all quit using neocon, it wasn't a word first used by us. It was coined by the liberals as a put down and is used more and more frequently by those who oppose it.

I doubt very much if you asked a liberal what neocon means [not what it stands for] few if any could define it.

As usual, just a thought.

Frannie


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[FreeReign]

Maybe we should all quit using neocon, it wasn't a word first used by us. It was coined by the liberals...

Hey Frannie. You're one smart conservative...

As usual, just a thought.

...and very understated too. I would say that the use of the liberal coined words neocon and paleocon -- makes my skin crawl.

[streetpreacher]

Actually the term neocon was coined by their founder Irving Kristol to desribe 60's liberal intelligisia who were as he put it "mugged by reality."