[Reagan Man]

Your explanation is clear, to the point, and 100% correct. I might add that, contrary to his statement, I am not myself making up definitions out of hand. I have heard neo-cons refered to as such in various articles, even though they were never on the left at all in their earlier lives.

You're in good company. You're as dense as rightwing2.

Neoconservative has one meaning and only one meaning. You can't change the definitive definition of neoconservative, just because it fits a certain catch phrase, used by political pundits from Chris Matthews to Pat Buchanan. Just because some political writers choose to create their own definitions for certain words and use those definitions, out of context, doesn't make it correct, or acceptable.

I support Israel and PM Sharon, that doesn't make me a neoconservative. Neo = new! I've been a Reagan conservative for nearly thirty years now. I'm not a new to the conservative movement. It's time you applied some common sense to this argument. The truth is staring you right in front of your face.

[Sandy]

Here you go, from Neoconservatism.com (probably a more reliable source than a dictionary which defines liberalism as "a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties"):

neoconservatism: a political perspective which is committed to cultural traditionalism, democratic capitalism, and a foreign policy promoting freedom and American interests around the world