[Always A Marine]

I’m sure there are some who find the “neocon” description meaningful, but those disreputable people I have known have so poisoned the word “neocon” for me that I turn away when I hear it. I do not in any way ascribe anti-Semitic motives to you for using it; I just have a visceral dislike for the word.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I just have a visceral dislike for the word.

Well, try using "neo-COM" on a RAT.

[Ben Ficklin]

As you may or may not know, when the liberal Jewish hawks left the democrat party for the GOP, the dems coined the word neoconservative to call this group. It was a word of contempt and ridicule, but Irving Kristol accepted the term and wore it as a badge.

It is just a name, but more than anything else, it is a doctrine and as such it can be defined and criticised(or praised if you lean that way). Or as Obama has done, the neocons can be apologized for.