[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Bill Kristol is generally considered to be a neocon, does not take the positions you mention, and was one of Palin’s earliest backers.

The GOP types who oppose her tend to be the ones called ‘crunchy cons’ for some reason.

[SolidWood]

Good point. Kristol certainly is more conservative than some other "Neocons", but Palin is far more conservative than Kristol will ever be.

The common ground between Kristol, Scheunemann and Palin is primarily on foreign policy, which is IMO a good thing.

[Josh Painter]

“Crunchy cons” are also known as “Granola conservatives.” Led by Rod Dreher, they are environmentalists who are mostly socially conservative, but oppose aspects of free market capitalism.

I think of them as former hippies who smoked too much dope and are hallucinating that they really are conservatives.

These people *really* hate Sarah Palin, probably because they are elitists while she is not.

- JP