I don't ordinarily think of David Frum as any sort of guru but he sure did peg the paleos for what they are and likely will be in his National Review article in April 2003 or 2004. They were and are a group of embarrassing social misfits whom Ronaldus Maximus kept at bay for years until they finally wised up that they were NOT going to be credentialed by an actually conservative administration. Thus, they burst forth in rage at a Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1986 in a fit of ideological rage. They favor "blood and soil" themes reminiscent of nothing respectable over actual conservative principles and Neville Chamberlain cowardice in foreign policy above all.
Paleos ought to go to the Demonrat Party where they belong with the rest of America's enemies. Perhaps, the slaughter that they and paleoPaulie are about to suffer at the actual caucuses and primaries will convince them. Alternatively, they could lay in a supply of good port, get soused and stay that way. They would be less of an embarrassment if too stewed to venture out in public. The white shoe GOP is no more and a good thing too.
The original neoconservatives (and the only genuine neoconservatives) are now about 90 years old or dead. They became conservatives (somewhat flawed but substantially so) when communists like George McGovern took over the Demonratic Party. Their choices were to change ideologically to some extent and join the GOP or to sit idly by while the reds took over America as well as the Democratic Party. They have proven (Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Sidney Hook, et al.)to be one hell of a lot more valuable and desirable as political allies and activists than the feckless little cowards like paleoPaulie and his friends who root for Al Qaeda against our own country and do Al Qaeda's bidding.
We need to change the terminology to make it more accurate. Other than the actual neoconservatives (quite elderly now), the conservative movement is that of the 1970s New Right, National Review, Weekly Standard, YRs, CRs, YAF and not the faint echoes of the worst of the 1930s whether our domestic quislings who tried to avoid WWII or Central European gummint types who thought their blood ancestors were gods and Jews their disposable enemies (I am a Catholic). That second group in one fashion or another should be known as paleowhatevers because there is NOTHING conservative about them.
Just because various enemies of our country ranging from the leftists of the Nation and New Republic and the pseudo"rightists" of the blood and soil obsessions agree on calling actual conservatives "neoconservatives" does not mean that the paleotail should be allowed to reattach itself much less to wag the dog.