[blam]

"The people I personally know who use the term seem to mean it as a thinly-veiled sneer at Jews."

I didn't know that. I've always sensed that there was a meaning that I wasn't getting.

[speedy]

Since most of the original group of prominent Neos were Jewish intellectual recovering Liberals, it seems to have developed this code meaning. When I hear people talk disparigingly about Neo-Cons, it usually precedes a scathing verbal attack on Israel and how we "let" Israel determine our foreign policy.