"Neo-Con" Do You Qualify?

PC Free News ^ | September 4, 2007 | JB Williams

[PlainOleAmerican]

The most popular political slur of our time is the term "neocon." Politically engaged people of several ideologies use the term regularly and although they mean different things when they use it, the term is always intended to be an insult, like the terms "neo-Nazi," and "fascist," also favorite slurs of the same ilk using "neocon." I was first called a “neocon” by known Democratic Socialists upset by my writings in favor of America’s founding principles, Life, individual Liberty and the right to pursue Happiness in a free market society where all things are possible through individual achievement and reward.

Since Democratic Socialists believe in and support Death not Life (abortion), a Greater Communal Good - not Individual Rights and the right to take from achievers via progressive taxation - not the right to live free, earn and retain wealth by the sweat of one’s own brow, I took the term “neocon” as a compliment.

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The hate mail I have received from Ron Paul supporters reads just like the hate mail I have always received from Marxists around the globe and across the aisle. It’s hate-filled overtly angry foul mouthed and threatening rhetoric that reads like it was written by anti-Semitic skin-heads on crack. I doubt that even Ron Paul would be proud of how his supporters behave…

[Alberta's Child]

Your insistence on trotting out that silly, inane argument -- i.e., that dealing with illegal immigrants by definition must include the deportation of 20 million people -- speaks volumes here.

I'd also add that you don't sound like much of a "neo-conservative" at all . . . you sound more like a pretty conservative guy who has simply thrown up his hands and surrendered on some issues.

[Alberta's Child]

Right. John Podhoretz -- whose father was one of the founders of the neo-conservative movement -- made an @ss of himself last summer when he suggested that a Giuliani/Lieberman team (which probably wouldn't COMBINE for an ACU rating higher than 35) would be the ideal Republican ticket in 2008.

Yeah, these morons are "conservative." LOL.

[billbears]

How am I an imperialist?

Sigh...do any of you have a dictionary?

Imperialism--The practice of one country extending its control over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country

The Armed Forces of these US has extended its control over the 'territory, political system, and economic life' of Iraq in one fashion or another. While you can claim it's short term it still fits the definition. You support this policy, therefore you are a supporter of imperialistic foreign policy

[BlackElk]

Can’t wait to see how badly the Galveston paleopipsqueak is crushed in the caucuses and primaries. You will hear that. Tick, tick, tick....

[tacticalogic]

Can’t wait to see how badly the Galveston paleopipsqueak is crushed in the caucuses and primaries. You will hear that. Tick, tick, tick....

The New Deal steamroller chugs on, to the cheers of the communitarians who never cared for the idea of a republic in the first place.

[tacticalogic]

Can’t wait to see how badly the Galveston paleopipsqueak is crushed in the caucuses and primaries. You will hear that. Tick, tick, tick....

The New Deal steamroller chugs on, to the cheers of the communitarians who never cared for the idea of a republic in the first place.

[BlackElk]

And the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

[PlainOleAmerican]

Can’t believe it’s still going on....

[BlackElk]

Do you think of 1937 as "the good old days" when the GOP was isolationist and had about 8 Senators and was self-stifled in rage against FDR and the New Deal. I don't doubt that the New Deal was ideologically in error but I also see no reason for the conservative movement to suicide over issues on which we were obliterated nearly 70 years ago. Whatever our ultimate objectives, we won't be starting with an attack on New Deal programs. can you define realism????

Likewise, we won't be reviving the foreign policy of Neville Chamberlain or Liberty Bell Lemke or Charles Lindberg. Those who want to do either as a leadoff strategy belong among the Libertoonians along with the dopers and the paleopacifist weenies.

[tacticalogic]

"The substantial effects doctrine is no test at all. It is a blank check"

-Justice Clarence Thomas.

Right here, right now.

[death2tyrants]

“The Armed Forces of these US has extended its control over the ‘territory, political system, and economic life’ of Iraq in one fashion or another. “

Ah, the revisionist history of the anti-American crowd. Your fradulent accusations against America would put America in violation of UNSCR 1546, which reaffirms ‘the independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of Iraq’ and ‘the right of the Iraqi people freely to determine their own political future and control their own natural resources’. Do you have evidence that the U.S. is in violation of this treaty, and if so, why hasn’t it been presented to the Council?

[jammer]

I thought a Neo-Con was a Jewish Conservative Republican?

Neo-Con, when the term was originated, was a group of mostly "ex"-Communist, entirely anti-Soviet persons. They were certainly not conservative in domestic matters then and, in the opinion of many, are not conservative now. They included Jeane Kirkpatrick, Irvin Kristol, etc.

[ejonesie22]

It never ends. The wind will alwys blow.

[tacticalogic]

If you think what happened in 1937 isn't anything to be concerned about, I can't imagine you'll find anything that happened in 1776 or 1789 of any possible consequence at all.

We're supposed to "roll back decades of federal government largesse", without looking back at those decades and the root cause? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[Abcdefg]

I’m not sure, but I have read that a Neo-Con is an allegedly reformed Trotskyite Communist.

[PlainOleAmerican]

When you use your “imperial” powers to put down an unelected tyrant and free a people living in bondage, it’s called “liberating” a nation, not “invading” or “imperial conquering”.

This is the mammoth difference isolationist libertarians refuse to acknowledge.

[billbears]

to put down an unelected tyrant and free a people living in bondage, it’s called “liberating” a nation, not “invading” or “imperial conquering”

And you'll provide the limited government, conservative basis for this action then will you? Or is it now your position that we should 'put down' any leader that doesn't provide the 'right' form of government?

Of course you'll have to make the distinction between 'tyrants' that are currently on the US payroll (i.e. Musharaff), 'tyrants' that are no longer on the US payroll (making them susceptible to removal), or 'tyrants' that are currently keeping their peoples in bondage but their nation's geographical location represents no definitive interest from the current administration

[Vaquero]

As did Herself, the Cold and Joyless. Where and how did your lives diverge? Ah, the reason was plain. You probably did not go to Wellesley.

this I didn't know....interesting.

[ovrtaxt]

Eh, I’m not convinced. Ron Paul is pro-life.

This guy is trying too hard to make a point that isn’t there, I guess to justify his anti-Ron Paul jihad.