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I’ve never seen Palin as an instinctive neo-con. I don’t mean to be rude, but, like all governors, she was a blank slate when it came to foreign policy. McCain was a neo-con, he was surrounded by neo-cons, and she was asked to tow the neo-con line. Seems like an educated guess to say that she became friendly with Scheunemann and kept him as her resource on foreign policy questions . . .

BUT, I suspect her instincts are far more Reaganite, more the military exists to kick *** and chew bubble gum” and stay away from nation building. So, I see this move as a natural move to gravitate towards a foreign policy doctrine that reflects her personal beliefs.

Frankly, it’s not unlike when McCain asked her to tow the line on bailouts. Even as a supporter, I’ll say that she comes off as pretty unpersuasive when it comes to talking about things that she doesn’t instinctively embrace (neo-cons, bailouts, etc.). Hey, it takes a certain type of “flexibility” to do that.

BUT, when she talks about things that she does instinctively believe, she comes across as extremely persuasive and even, dare I say, knowledgeable (e.g., name some other politician who has provided in layman’s terms so forceful an indictment of QE2 . . . Ron Paul, yes, but in professorial terms).

IMHO, neocons are libs who like to start wars for monetary reasons and then send your kids to go fight.

Agreed. Remember: “Neo-Con” (’new conservative’) is nothing but code words for “OLD LIBERAL”.

They simply view our military as another branch of gov’t they can wield to shove their failed liberal philosophies down the world’s throat.

“IMHO, neocons are libs who like to start wars for monetary reasons and then send your kids to go fight.”

Pretty much. I have always thought of them as liberals with some math skills, but your summary is more correct.

BTTT

“IMHO, neocons are libs who like to start wars for monetary reasons and then send your kids to go fight.”

Keeping USA out of foreign entanglements much much better. We have huge problems in this country; we can not afford the blood or money to fight and rebuild 5-10000 miles from home. Bush won a 2nd term barely but this war hobbled him severely. The most important war is for the Supreme Court. Libturds have done for mare damage to ths country from the court than even BinLaden accomplished.

I have contributed to sarah pac since July 2009. This was one area I hoped she would see is both a real-life and political loser: Fighting land wars thousands of miles from home on theoretical pretexts. To hunt down BinLaden, yes, and massive retaliation to to the Ta-lee-bahn, yes. All these other wars, if they are so important let the Eorpoeans/others lead. It’s much closer to their neighborhood.