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Ron Paul is more of a paleo-libertarian. "Paleo-con" is a euphemism for "grumpy".

>"Paleo-con" is a euphemism for "grumpy".

And why in the world should paleocons not be grumpy?

We see every day the debasement of the term "conservative" to grace an agenda which FDR would have felt comfortable with. I do not think it wrong of them to take this amiss.

An acquaintance said to me recently that he had lived to see an America in which many Christian churches preached doctrine that would have been utterly incomprehensible in any Christian congregation, of any denomination, in his boyhood town.

In like manner, self-described conservatism is changing in ways which are rendering it unrecognizable to people who, by the definitions used fifty years ago, were conservatives as then commonly understood.

I don't propose to allow to start yet *another* unproductive, interminable terminological battle over who-is-and-who-is-not-a-true-conservative; simply to note that stances associated with the term have changed over time, sometimes very markedly.

""Paleo-con" is a euphemism for "grumpy". "

I resemble that remark. 'Pod