[meadsjn]

Irving Krystol coined the word "neo-con" about thirty years ago to describe his own bunch of former Democrats who moved from (D) to (R) because they were disenchanted with the far-left radicals in the Dem party.

His description is that they were social liberals, fiscal conservatives, i.e. Democrats with stock holdings.

They morphed into the anti-American globalist redistributionist RINOs who have wrecked the Republican Party's middle class coalition that Ronald Reagan brought together to win in 1980 and 1984.

[meadsjn]

Sarah Palin is pulling together a similar coalition, and quite possibility to include a few more factions that Reagan never won.

[roses of sharon]

Of course...Irving was an interesting intellectual back in the day..I was talking about the modern use of the term.

As far as SP goes..imo, she is not running. She stepped down to test the waters, and she may still be undecided. But joining Fox instead of traveling overseas showed me that she has decided to wait.

BUT, maybe some are trying to talk her into running now because the atmosphere is so bad for Hussein.

Who knows!