It means absolutely nothing, the same as “homophobe” and “religious right.” Merely terms of contempt invented by the left for normal people.
IMHO the United States of America should use our superpower status to promote democracy around the globe. However, the greatest means of accomplishing this is through diplomacy, not direct military intervention, except for where our national interests and security are directly at risk. That’s my 2 cents.
Isn’t a neoconservative a conservative without brass?
A Neoconservative is a cross-dressing liberal.
Neoconservative (aka “Neocon”): sotto voce code word for “The Joooos”
I don’t believe that is how the word neoconservative first originated.
Neo means new. There were some conservative Democrats who parted with the Democratic Party in the late ‘60s and in the ‘70s. They liked the Democrats’ social programs, but did not like the way the Democrats refused to stand up to communist agressors.
They became Republicans because of people like Reagan, who wanted America to be proud of its heritage and liberty and to stand up to the Soviet Union. But they brought with them into the Republican Party a sympathetic view of socialist programs such as welfare and medicare. They were like Rockefeller Republicans on the domestic side, but like hard line conservatives on the international side. It’s part of the reason the Republican Party is so confused today.
A term used by Libertarians against conservatives because conservatives don’t share the far-left’s embrace of isolationism.
Democrats who joined the Republican party between the Reagan era and 9/11. Most are liberal Jews who strongly support IsraeL high taxes big spending and big government.
A neo con is a big government Republican who thinks America should always be at war while putting Israel first.
A neo con is a big government Republican who thinks America should always be at war while putting Israel first.
Thomas Jefferson was the first NeoCon.
Trerm is used to try and smear any conservative that’s not a hate America socialist.
Now I’m really not sure what a neo-con is!
I once saw a person at a straw poll holding a Ron Paul sign screaming about how anyone who didn’t support Ron Paul in that straw poll was a “Trotskyite Neocon”.
So, I guess if this person is to be believed, Neocons are the Trotskyite wing of the GOP.
Simple. “Neocon” is Libspeak for “Jooooooo!” Specifically, a Joooooo who believes that Israel has the right to defend itself militarily.
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The term has lost all relevance, it is used against everyone who isn’t a Ron Paulite. Hell, I even saw some Paultards calling Obama a NeoCon in one article and Ronald Reagan a NeoCon in another article- all by the same author.
BlackElk has the best, most complete history of the real Neo-Cons. Pinging.
The end result is that we end up being the "global policeman," but we only act on behalf of those foreign interests who have the means to purchase our military service.
I mean, is there any question anymore about why this kind of sh!t has been tolerated here in the U.S.?
Who knew that the liberals who support Obastard's Libyan war were neocons?
In my mind a neo-con is a temporary conservative, usually a Jewish-liberal, who promotes war in the middle east under a republican president, who then disappears from public view while the administration gets hammered from the left for starting a war.
Daddy Bush and Junior either both fell for them, or used them.
Another FReeper, I can’t recall who, stated that “neocons are warmongering socialists”. A little simplistic, but not far from the truth.
“Neoconservative” is a bit of a misnomer, really. They’re not conservatives at all. They are nearly diametrically opposed to Goldwater limited-government conservatism. Another good euphemism for ‘neocon’ would be ‘big-government republican’.
The original neocons were disaffected democrats who embraced democrat domestic policy, but did not care for the 60’s counter-culture and anti-war protests.
Trademark neocon positions are open-borders internationalism, free trade absolutism, military interventionism a la ‘nation building’, and Keynesian economic policies.
Alternatively, some believe the original neocons were members of the early-20th century Fabian Socialist movement and their real aim was to infiltrate the ranks of the Republican party and move it leftward from within to remove the only viable internal opposition to the socialization of the US economy and destruction of US economic hegemony.