[nopardons]

Balderdash!

Words and terms have specific,set meanings,which are NOT open to whims,vicissitudes,and machinations of change,that you or anyone else decides.If I know the meaning of the word doleful,use it correctly,but you decide that it means something else completely and keep misusing that word,no one will understand YOU and will be confused.Arguing that doleful means "happy" or "jollity" or perhaps,"green",doesn't make it so! And so it is,with what you're trying to do with "neo-con".

It doesn't make any difference that you "think" that YOUR version makes sense.The truth of the matter is,Irving Kristol invented the term and he decided WHAT the term means.Yes...it IS set in stone,written in blood,and immutable!

Others HAVE misused,abused,and corrupted the term;using it as an anti-Semitic,code word,slur.Others use it to bash and trash President Bush,his administration,and/or as an anti-war,anti-JEW pejorative.

YOU? You change the meaning week to week,month to month,to abuse anyone and EVERYONE who disagrees with anything ( the topic doesn't matter at all!)you say.And playing games with my nic is juvenile,puerile,and only reflects badly on YOU ! Just as making up your own perverted meaning for neo-con,calling me "neopardons",doesn't make me a neo-con (which I'm not)any more than calling me something else,makes that.

Joe,languages have set rules,words have set meaning,and when someone ignores the set rules,it is THEY who are wrong.That's just how it is.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yes, I do believe you are a neocon. You see, my definition supercedes all others, and my definition is generally accepted by most others. Just 20 years ago you would be considered an extreme leftist. But today, you are what is considered a left of center moderate, a neocon, using Joe's New World Dictionary. The new, compassionate conservatives can be found agreeing with their political parties regardless of policy. Myself, I am a member of the vast right wing conspiracy, you know, the one Hillary described from the other beltway party. As a matter of fact, I'd be considered an angry white male, but I'm an Apache Indian, with some red neck and Viking mixed in, so I guess I'd be considered an angry redneck Injun. But after a long Saturday night, I clean up real good.