Ornstein is wittingly FoS -- this is the same old Leftist whine, surprising coming from Ornstein until you reflect that, at the end of the day, he's a Jewish neocon, and Jewish neocons think about real conservatives along these lines:
A Neocon blogs various discontents with Sarah Palin, "Flyover Country".
No love lost there. Neocons agree with conservatives about 55% of the time -- but never on social issues. There, their socialist, urban-ethnic, Democratic-wardheeler roots show plainly. And they are totally allergic both to Southern conservatives (excusing their opposition as being "for the good of the party's image" [Southerner=redneck lynch-mob, totally]) and, lo and behold, to very Northern, very rural, very non-Southern conservatives who expose the Neocons' hidden socialism and statism. Then they get really grouchy and dyspeptic, and vote secretly for Communists like Obama in preference to a real Christian conservative. Conservatives, after all, have murdered so many millions of Jews in repeated pogroms in North America over the last 100 years ...... oh, wait, I was thinking of Stalinists in Russia. Oh, well, never mind. </s>
I should have added, "and Trotskyite". A lot of the original neoconservatives were Trotskyites who began to be less ensorcelled by Sovietism after Stalin had Trotsky murdered in Mexico.
And after Israel had to fight for its life twice in seven years against vast Arab armies, the ex-Trotskyites finally began to see the merits of a defense policy, and in particular a U.S. Defense Department, to rake people's bacon out of the fire for them.
But the alliance has always been uneasy.