[Georgia Girl 2]

Next old Bill will be trying to say the Tea Party are really neo=cons. :-)

[Kaslin]

Actually the article is not about Bill Kristol, but his father.

[Ben Ficklin]

"Next old Bill will be trying to say the Tea Party are really neocons"

That was the neocon goal, to co-opt the Tea Party. And the neocon hired Sarah Palin and Glen Beck to do exactly that. Palin would go after the social conservative teapartiers which she did at the Nashville convention and Beck would go after the libertarian minded teapartiers who had some degree of loyalty to Ron Paul. That all culminated at Beck's rally on the National Mall and Palin would join him on the stage to join the two groups.

But Palin and Beck figured it would be better to co-opt the tea party for their own gain. And each has made good money off the tea party.

There was a lot of ill will between Palin and the neocons over that and it got worse with Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell. And finally there in the spring of 2011, Palin fired her two neocon advisors, Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, because of the neocons' involvement in Libya.