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To: Sam Hill
"....and this world were betrayed by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11."

What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway? I can't stand that word. Can't being conservative simply mean being an old-fashioned conservative anymore?
5 posted on 08/10/2005 1:50:29 PM PDT by jdm (The answer to the extra credit question on a Columbia U exam is always choice C: "Bush's Fault.")
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To: jdm

The left has highjacked the term to mean anyone to the right of Marx.


11 posted on 08/10/2005 1:51:21 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: jdm
What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway? I can't stand that word.

Its code for conservative jew.

28 posted on 08/10/2005 1:54:09 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: jdm

I sincerely doubt Cindy could tell anyone exactly what a "neocon" is supposed to be. It's just code-talk and people who use the term are not called on it enough.


31 posted on 08/10/2005 1:54:32 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: jdm

neo con is a code word for jewish


60 posted on 08/10/2005 1:59:58 PM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: jdm
What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway?

To the best of my knowledge it's a foriegn policy distinction. 'Neocons' believe in taking an active role in the world affairs as opposed to isolationaist 'Paleocons' like Pat Buchanan who are closer to the 1930s style anti-Semitic Republicans who were opposed to entering WW2 (a decision which Pat has also questioned).
70 posted on 08/10/2005 2:01:43 PM PDT by Borges
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To: jdm
What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway? I can't stand that word.

If you're serious neighbor, just take a little time off from FR and do some research right here on the wondernet.

What's stoppin yuh?

161 posted on 08/10/2005 2:27:42 PM PDT by iconoclast (They Just Don't Get It ... by Colonel David Hunt. Get it. Read it.)
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To: jdm
"What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway?"

After you've read between many lines from those who call themselves "paleo-cons," you see that "neo-cons" are those of us who are not neo-Nazis. "Paleo-cons" are semi-closeted, cryptic, national socialist Caligula lobby people.
333 posted on 08/10/2005 3:48:46 PM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: jdm

"Neocon" is a code word for "#!(#!& Jew" - the moment one of the moonbats utters it, I have seen through their thin veneer. If we are serious about "never again" then we need to go after these creeps.


374 posted on 08/10/2005 4:17:56 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the"and Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: jdm

"What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_(United_States)


378 posted on 08/10/2005 4:20:15 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: jdm
What the hell is a 'neo-con' anyway? I can't stand that word. Can't being conservative simply mean being an old-fashioned conservative anymore?

Nope...That would be a Paleocon...They're as rare as a white buffalo now days...

A paleo is a Barry Goldwater type...That would be anti-Nafta, Cafta, WTO and New World Order...No illegal alien amnesty for Paleocons...A whole different critter than Neocons.

431 posted on 08/10/2005 5:10:20 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: jdm
From http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neo-conservative#Origins_of_the_neo-conservative_movement :

A neo-conservative (abbreviated as neo-con or neocon) is part of a U.S. based political movement rooted in liberal Cold War anticommunism and a backlash to the social liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. These liberals drifted toward conservatism: thus they are new (neo) conservatives. They favor an aggressive unilateral U.S. foreign policy. They generally believe that elites protect democracy from mob rule. Sometimes the spelling is "neoconservative."...

...Origins of the neo-conservative movement In their book Right-Wing Populism in America, Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons wrote that:

Neoconservatives, including many Jewish and Catholic intellectuals rooted in Cold War liberalism, clustered around publications such as Public Interest and Commentary and organizations such as the Committee on the Present Danger. They emphasized foreign policy, where they advocated aggressive anticommunism, U.S. global dominance, and international alliances. Although they attacked feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism, "neocons" often placed less emphasis on social policy issues, and many of them opposed school prayer or a ban on abortion. In addition, many neocons supported limited social welfare programs and nonrestrictive immigration policies." [1]

Inter-Press Service journalist Jim Lobe noted that the development of a common understanding on the definition of neoconservative "can help distinguish them from other parts of the ideological coalition behind the administration's neo-imperialist trajectory". Lobe identifies the main strands as "the traditional Republican Machtpolitikers (Might Makes Right), such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, and the Christian Rightists, such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, Gary Bauer, and Pat Robertson."[2]

Writing in 2002 Lobe and Tom Barry argued that"neoconservatives have a profound belief in America1s moral superiority, which facilitates alliances with the Christian Right and other social conservatives. But unlike either core traditionalists of American conservatism or those with isolationist tendencies, neoconservatives are committed internationalists. As they did in the 1970s, the neoconservatives were instrumental in the late 1990s in helping to fuse diverse elements of the right into a unified force based on a new agenda of U.S. supremacy.."[3]

As others have mentioned, I've seen neo-con used as code for Jewish conservative. There's a quiz at http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html . At the end it mentions that a historical neocon would be Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and a modern one would be Ronald Reagan.

610 posted on 08/10/2005 7:37:25 PM PDT by skr (Almighty God, thank you for the liberty you have bestowed upon this nation.)
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