Thump-bump.
As the issues have unfolded and been reviewed by them, the Wlat Brigade show themselves to be coming from a position every more closely identifiable with neoliberalism. The chief difference between a neoconservative and a neoliberal being whether we should have a defense department, and whether liberals should try to learn something from the domestic policy failures of the 1950's.
It's getting harder to tell whether they're neoconservatives trying to drive Southern conservatives into an upstairs attic like Crazy Aunt Mary, where they can feed us table scraps and keep us under wraps so as not to embarrass them with their liberal neighbors, and then just wheel us to the polls on election day and bait us into voting a GOP straight ticket with a few down-ballot social initiatives, or whether they're neoliberals straining in the traces with their boy Slick Willie to split the GOP in two.
The intent is undoubtedly the former, while the result will, without question, be the latter.
If one accepts that Conservative principles are smaller, less intrusive government, fiscal responsibility, and respect for states rights then there are no Southern conservatives today. Just Democrats with religion.