Fixin' for a fight:In the GOP, the long knives are out for the neoconservatives

U.S.News & World Report ^ | 10/25/04 Issue | Thomas Omestad

[Ed Current]

What is a neoconservative? The exact opposite of a Liberal in almost every single way. Go Horowitz!

Neocons March Left

[montag813]

Richard Lugar (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Lincoln Chafee....Chuck Hagel

Any article that describes these men as "Conservatives" and even considers the rancid opinions of Saudi-stooges Norquist and Eagleberger, is not fit even to wipe one's behind with.

[Ed Current]

LOL!

[Tamzee]

Yet another of your bash-Republicans, critical of President Bush, divide-the-right articles....

You just joined recently in the midst of a critical election and post a great many of these. Pardon me if I doubt your integrity, integrity, integrity...

[Godebert]

" One defintion of a Neoconservative is one who has realized that social programs DON'T work, that they backfire, and produce more problems than solutions. I am a former Liberal. It was precisely this view (among others) that drove me to conservatism. What is a neoconservative? The exact opposite of a Liberal in almost every single way. Go Horowitz!

A former liberal, huh? Who'd you vote for in Kalifornia's last election for Governor?

[Prime Choice]

And just who is that "base"? Define it. Be specific.

I can tell you who it ain't. It ain't the pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-runaway spending, pro-illegal amnesty, or pro-gay marriage "moderate" (spelled l-i-b-e-r-a-l) jackwits that the sellouts are trying to squeeze into the "big tent."

[Godebert]

Well said.

[Ed Current]

I can see now…the big POST ELECTION HEADLINES:

BREAKING……..

One Freeper SWINGS ELECTION….something about a few posts on an enormous Forum.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW @ 10 WITH Tamsey

[LeftCoastNeoCon]

I preferred McClintock. In every way. I voted for Arnold. (I really dislike his stands on many social issues.)

[MEG33]

BUSH/CHENEY...04..FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION

[Ed Current]

Yet another of your bash-Republicans

Unimposing Kerry (Imposing his values on others)

[Godebert]

"I voted for Arnold."

Yup....I reckon voting for liberals is a hard habit to break.

[MEG33]

I live in Texas..go bash someone else.

[Tamzee]

I call it like I see it and what I see is that your every move is designed to damage support for President Bush.

You're carrying water for leftist scum and it looks like you joined FR in the middle of an election to do just that.

[MEG33]

I love your profile page!...Go Bush/Cheney!

[Godebert]

Sorry....I replied to wrong post.

[Godebert]

"I voted for Arnold."

Yup....I reckon voting for liberals is a hard habit to break.

[x]

I don't see it. The author exaggerates. Neocons are most concerned with foreign policy. Indeed, the neocon label has come to mean "Iraq hawk." And for the time being they have most of the Republicans behind them. That may change. Republicans and others may come to feel that the neocons have gone too far, and power will return to less ideologically committed, more "realistic" thinkers and policy makers. It's far, far less likely that determined isolationists will take over the party any time soon. In any event, the change is something Republicans can easily manage if they care to.

On domestic affairs, things will surely shift, but which way? They'll be a move away from "big government" conservatism, and probably a few steps back from the evangelical attitudes of the Bush Administration. But what does that add up to, a move to the left, or to the right, or just sideways? Maybe it will just be a turn from committed ideologists towards more managerial/pragmatic types or towards a more restrained, mainstream or Main Street view of politics. But that would be balanced by a renewed emphasis on cutting spending and getting serious about issues that the administration has ignored, so the result will likely be a shift in the mix, rather than a jarring lurch to the right or the left. In any event, barring a catastrophic loss at the polls, Republicans will be able to manage their internal conflicts.

[King Prout]

yeah... and what's with that title?
"Long Knives"?

such a transparent reference to the extermination/purge of the SA from the Nazi ranks.

who the hell wrote this... Soros?

[rdb3]

I can tell you who it ain't. It ain't the pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-runaway spending, pro-illegal amnesty, or pro-gay marriage "moderate" (spelled l-i-b-e-r-a-l) jackwits that the sellouts are trying to squeeze into the "big tent."

I didn't ask you who it wasn't. I asked you to define who it is. You described a flaming Leftist.

Again, define the base, please.

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