[Happy2BMe]

Today's Republican would not recognize a conservative if one came up and spoke to him.

The Republican Conservative is dead.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Neocons claim to be against hate and exclusion. Yet they have strong voices that demand "paleocons" be purged. They feeeeeel that they are the wave of the future for the world. These "social issues" and internationalist conservatives are 1960s liberals who migrated after losing their homeland to the extremist New Left.

With their dominance of the "conservative" movement comes a political debate between liberals (neocons) who are pro-capitalism patriots and liberals (today's Democrat Party leaders) who are neither. Hugely important for our Republic, of course. But I wish the neocons would drive the traitors from the Democrat Party and restore traditional politics between two parties.

I'll never forget (or did I imagine it given the era) the photo of Nelson Rockefeller at the podium in the 1964 convention of Republicans, San Francisco. Tired of being "dis-ed" by Goldwater supporters he had a clenched-teeth grin and a single finger extended out of a tight fist. A sign of things to come for those "paleocons" when they were young.

Actually they got a taste of the future that year from the smears of the Rockefeller Republicans and the future neo-cons in the doomed Democrat Party.