I go you one further: I don't even know who the so-called "neo-cons" are. Here is my current, complete, confirmed list of "neo-cons": 1. Norman Podhoretz, 2. Irving Kristol, 3. (maybe) David Horowitz
I agree with many, if not most of their positions, including, on occasion, Kristol.
Are you saying that Bill Kristol is one such so-called "neo-con"? Says who?
Kristol is a special case. He has a personal vendetta against either mainstream conservatives and/or the Bush family,
He does? So you can read his mind?
he likes to throw spitballs, carry tales, and generally cause problems.
In English please? What's a "spitball"? This is starting to remind me of the '90s when leftists would constantly describing Newt Gingrich as "bomb-throwing". I would always think, "what the hell are they talking about? what 'bombs'?"
What "spitballs"?
Krauthammer, Perle, Wolfowitz, etc. are fine by me,
That's terrific, really. What do they have to do with anything? You think they're "neo-cons"? Why do you think that?
Kristol, however, is not always helpful.
Okay so boil this all down and what we've got is that: you don't entirely like or appreciate the contributions to the political sphere of one Bill Kristol, news opinion writer and TV commentator.
Well! That's fascinating. Anything else? Because as a grand analysis of the political scene it doesn't tell me all that much.
Kristol was causing trouble in the first Bush administration. He is not trustworthy, in my opinion.
Fair enough, you're entitled to your opinions and all. Personally I have almost no opinion of Bill Kristol one way or the other.
I haven't the foggiest idea what any of this has to do with a discussion of "neo-cons".
As far as the discussion of neo-cons, I was using the generally accepted grouping often bandied about here. Frankly, it doesn't make much difference to me.
However, Kristol's opinion (exagerrated by Newsmax) is what prompted much of this discussion, and since the administration is accused of allowing people like Kristol to drive policy (not true) some discussion of his history was in order.
Sorry if you felt I was off-topic.