From Ben Fake-lin:
“Anti-reality?
All the realists have been trotted out in support. Kissinger, Schultz, Baker, Rice, Powell, Scowcroft, Gates, GHW Bush.
Everyone that was involved in the first START treaty”
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And nearly every name you’ve listed there are RINOs! It is quite obvious that your position is as follows:
“NeoCons” = conservatives/Tea Party
“realists” = RINOs
Your view of the START “Treaty” falls right in line with Obama, every leftist Democrat, and a handful of RINOs and you seem all too happy to vote with them to compromise our national defense without ever even having seen ANY of the treaty negotiation records with the Russians. You are a complete phony and very clearly NOT a conservative.
Actually, the term NeoConservative aka NeoCon was coined by the dems in the 1970s as a derogatory term of contempt to describe a group of liberal Jewish foreign policy hawks who left the democratic party to become conservative Jewish foreign policy hawks.
The leader of the group at the time was Irving Kristol(father of Bill Kristol) and he accepted the term to name his group.
Today, the group NeoCons includes other than Jews and they are still hawks but are also known as unilateralists, idealists, or empire builders, to name a few. One of their organizing principles is the Wolfowitz Doctrine.
On domestic issues they are sometimes called "big government" conservatives or compassionate conservatives.