[the irate magistrate]

good article

[ImpotentRage]

Interesting article. Will return to this when I have time to delve into the "off shoots" he mentions.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Despite this lengthy treatise, I still don't know what the heck a neocon is.

[Consort]

They are just trying to divide us, but we neo paleo macro poly meta archeo pluri pan mono multi myria meso medio mani oligo hypo veteri plaid seni iso syn ultra ceno uni novi ideo intimi omni nema staunch paro idio mega ortho para peri pachy proto pseudo sym tauto hypno teleo duct-tape syl real auto hyper holo exo endo dys caco amphi allo acro ambi ante apo sover contra de intus super broken-glass circum narco extra conto ento infra intra trans post con retro sub ecto supra inter meth per socio conservatives are united.

[Darheel]

"Firstly, the term "neoconservative" is now too closely identified with the personal and ethnic concerns of its Jewish celebrities."

No anti-Semitism here, move along...

Consort, you forgot me and Reagan, the "Arch-" Conservatives. : p

[moneyrunner]

” Firstly, the term "neoconservative" is now too closely identified with the personal and ethnic concerns of its Jewish celebrities. Despite their frequent attempts to find kept gentiles, the game of speaking through proxies may be showing diminishing results. Everyone with minimal intelligence knows that Bill Bennett, Frank Gaffney, Ed Feulner, Michael Novak, George Weigel, James Nuechterlein, and Cal Thomas front for the neocons.”

There is more than a hint of anti-Semitism in this piece.

[dighton]

Source?

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[William McKinley]

Neoconservative used to be a term that had a specific, precise meaning: former leftists who had followed the transformation of Irving Kristol and become conservatives with an interventionist mindset.

For some reason, certain groups thought it would be a wise idea to expand the definition of neoconservative while simultaneously attempting to demonize neoconservatives. I suppose this was a semi-intentional gambit to try to expunge views they disagreed with from the mainstream. In effect, it entrenched these views as the mainstream.

I wonder how William McKinley would be labelled by these people, were he a politician today. Deeply religious, believing in persuing American interests internationally, wanting to leverage American advantages in business through free trade (albeit using tarriffs where appropriate to protect industry), willing to fight against tyranny in places like Cuba. I imagine he would be called a neocon, which begs the question- how 'new' can this conservatism be if it has been around for over 100 years?

[Cachelot]

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=602931&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=0#Post602931

Hmmmmmmmm...mmmmm?