Charles Krauthammer is a very intelligent guy, and is very well-spoken. He does have a handful of conservative ideals, but he is a proponent of big government and keeping the little folk “in their place.” He is also one of gun control’s biggest allies.
Taken in totality he is not a conservative, but he is not a liberal, either. I’d say the label of “neo-con” does describe him rather well.
I don’t agree with Krauthammer on a number of issues (like gun control), but from what I’ve heard him explaining his conversion to conservatism he’s hardly a proponent of big government.