[wku man]

Absotively right on, bro!!! I cringe every time I hear some smarmy talking head utter the word "neo-con" and then sit there so sumg and satisfied that they've managed to squeeze in yet another current, cool inside the Beltway buzzword. Conservativism is conservatism...period! If you call yourself a conservative, but then add qualifiers, then you're not a conservative.

Back during the 2000 campaign, I inwardly winced every time I heard Bush described as a "compassionate" conservative (like conservatism itself isn't already compassionate!), but I turned a blind eye to the implications...after all, he was our man, the one who was going to bring conservative ideals back to DC and chase the Klinton-Whore scourge away for good. I turned a similar blind eye to Kack Kemp's "bleeding-heart" conservativism in '96. Never again. Liberals are liberal, moderates are moderate, and conservatives are conservative.

David Horowitz, Bill Kristol, and others who wear the Neo-con moniker on their sleeves need to reconsider. Those of us who have been on the conservative team all our lives look at them with suspicion at best, and scorn, in my case.

Great post, bro.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[sauropod]

De nada! Neo-cons are bedwetters. And to someone else that said that he has never met a neo-con, i can tell ya that the People's Republic of Maryland is infested with them. They are called the Republican Party of Maryland ;-) ;-).

[Tuor]

David Horowitz, Bill Kristol, and others who wear the Neo-con moniker on their sleeves need to reconsider.

Reconsider what? Calling themselves what they actually are, which *certainly* isn't Conservatism as I understand it. They want to make the world subservient to corperations and corperations to become essentialy arms of the state, all held together by a strong police force -- secret and overt; informants among the populous probably wouldn't hurt either, in their minds (TIPS, anyone?).

Tuor