"Everbody's favorite arch-neocon hits the ball out of the park."
Actually, Dr Hanson is a Registered Democrat, and that probably would eliminate him from being a neo con.
http://victorhanson.com/articles/dowd082705.html
August 28, 2005
America’s Historian in Chief
by Alan W. Dowd
American Legion Magazine
"This interview with Victor Davis Hanson by Alan Dowd of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research was conducted on April 5, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and published in the September 2005 issue of the American Legion.
Victor Davis Hanson emerged from the relative obscurity of his academic post at Fresno State University on September 11, 2001, to become something akin to America’s “Historian-in-Chief.” Spurred by a legion of eager editors, Hanson has translated his expertise in classical military history to the war on terror. The result is some 300 essays (and counting) and a literal army of devotees. He notes with pride that he receives 10 to 20 supportive emails each week from U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"His primary platform for explaining this first war of the 21st century has been a decidedly modern mode of communication — the World Wide Web. With the dependability of Old Faithful, Hanson’s weekly commentaries have poured forth from the web-based daily of National Review, one of the forbears of the modern conservative movement. But Hanson reminds those who dismiss him as a Republican shill that he’s a registered Democrat."
Grampa,
Wouldn't that make him precisely a neo con?
It has been my understanding that one must first have been a democrat to have become a newly minted (neo) conservative: examples of founding members of the movement are John Podheretz and Irvig Kristol. Later, famous neos are Richard Pearl (Perle?) and Paul Wolfowitz.