[quidnunc]

The static we're hearing is from the Death-Before-Electability wingnuts.

They and their ilk kept the California GOP wandering in the electoral wilderness for years.

[Southern Federalist]

Just so. I don't think the real line is between neo-cons and "paleos." I think the real line is between serious national defence conservatives in the Reagan tradition, and Clinton-era conservatives who spent the post-Soviet nineties spitting and fuming and getting glassy-eyed about their own little issues, and can't adjust to the fact that there are now real life-or-death issues on our national plate again.