[iconoclast]

Can someone please define "Neo-conservative" for me?

Piece of cake. Their goals are exactly the same as the left wing .... big government solutions. Only headed by Them, the ever so much more enlightened and intelligent ones (almost exclusively drawn from those who have or have had as little to do with the great unwashed as possible, read journalists, writers, think-tank types, almost all former Democrats). And please don't rush out that old Reagan chestnut.

[Jhoffa_]

Thank you..

[Classicaliberalconservative]

What big government solutions? Neocons are the ones who came up with every good idea for the past decade: privatization of Social Security, tax cuts, school vouchers, privitization of government services when logical, free trade, funding of science and technology research, the broken windows theory of crime fighting. All of them are neocon ideas. It is the paleocons who have their heads in the sand trying advocating "big government solutions" like protectionism, and disincentives to globalization. Thomas Fleming said himself that he agreed with the leftists and Seattle protestors about globalization, McDonalds and the modern world. Listen if I had a time machine I'd send these people to the 19th century which is what most of them seem to be pining for.