interesting - this has been a source of some minor confusion for me.
I think 'smonk' hit it on the head. neo-cons are liberals who like perpertual wars, who have hijacked the GOP, and planned the war in iraq and other middle eastern countries in the 1990s via PNAC. All they needed, according to their own writings, was a "Perle Harbor type event" in order to justify their wars.
Read Congressman Ron Pauls' speech "We've been Neo-Conned'.
Coexerj145, I would be interested to know what you think a RINO is! is it someone who doesnt care about pesky moral issues such as abortion, stem cell research, homo marriage, etc? Because if so, (in case you weren't aware) this is exactly what neo-cons believe. They couldn't care less about traditional values or morality in govt. Specter, Hatch, Canon, Flake, etc. are the sodomite loving, abortionist, open border advocates. The wonderful RINO neo-cons. You support them?
To me a neo-con is a democrat inspired by Trotsky who pretends to be conservative and runs under the 'R' ticket so that the mesmerized party loyalist simpletons will embrace and elect them.
Of course, as I have said before.. the decline of morality in today's society and the socialistic public schools have dumbed down the populace so much, that these RINOS can get away with it. people don't even have a grasp of what conservatism is. They think it just has to do with financial matters and wars.
"What the Heck Is a 'Neocon'?" from the WSJ a couple of years ago :
"http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002840"
Labels such as these are stop-thought devices used by those with weak positions to forestall consideration of the underlying issues.
Rather than refuting an argument and going through the trouble offering any viable alternative, just dismiss your opponent with a buzz-word that cannot be objectively defined.
If neither side can define it doesn’t exist. It is past time to drop this idiotic subject.