Posted on 09/04/2007 11:50:38 AM PDT by 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.
(snip)
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…
(Excerpt) Read more at pcfreenews.com ...
Would that make me a gigolo?
self-ping
I’ll second that!
“It’s hate-filled overtly angry foul mouthed and threatening rhetoric that reads like it was written by anti-Semitic skin-heads on crack.”
Hate-filled, angry foul mouthed threatening rhetoric, written by anti-Semitic skin-heads on crack.
Does this fit?
And then maybe ask yourself why the pre-eminent "neo-conservative" in the media business (Rupert Murdoch) is a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Do I need to draw pictures for people to get this point across?
I was once a union dues paying registered democRAT when I cast my first vote for RR in 80', but I have always been instinctively Conservative. To suggest that the events of 9/11 created a "new" conservatism is absurd.
The Iranian hostage crisis should have been America's "9/11". Ron Paul and his Paulistinians remind me of Jimmy Carter, and look where that has gotten us.
The first time I heard the term Neo-Con it was associated with William F. Buckley Jr.. I’ll take that mantle any day.
As the column noted....
Don’t like Dictionary.com huh?
No - more like a microwave oven.
Well I am pretty hot. ;~D
Bottom line: it’s always meant as an insult so the definition of the word is pretty much irrelevant.
Me too!
I’m down with that!
I think you’ve nailed it there.
I’m a neo-Conservative, in that I’m a former liberal. And I find nothing objectionable about nation-building in the least. We have no choice in the 21st century to do just that, otherwise we will have to endlessly fight wars or have our borders invaded by people fleeing said countries. Paleo-Con isolationists are the ones that I see that have little to do with Conservatism today and everything to do with the far-left, if only because they sailed so far to the right as to cross the international political dateline. It’s why the Paul and Kucinich foreign policy positions are indistinguishable.
I thought neo-con meant a economic conservative/social liberal who supports Israel.
As I understand it ... the term “neo-con” doesn’t have anything to do with the Constitution or domestic policy. “Neocon” is a term used by wacko leftists to describe conservatives who favor an interventionist foreign policy. Under that definition, I would consider myself a “neo-con”.
>> They are both adamantly opposed to private ownership of guns, they are both hard-core supporters of open borders, and both groups are openly hostile to anything remotely resembling a strict constructionist interpretation of the U.S. constitution.
Leftists who use the term “neo-con” as an epithet are in favor of ALL of the things you describe - anti-gun, open border, living constitution, etc. If your interpretation of “neocon” were accurate, why would it be a slur when used by these leftists.
I am a member of the NRA, an advocate for border security, and a strict constructionist ... and have been called a neo-con on many an occasion because I favor an interventionist foreign policy where necessary.
H
No, but you’d better do a little research yourself. Start at Dictionary.com
You’ll enjoy this thread, ping.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.