Posted on 09/13/2008 6:24:37 AM PDT by Schnucki
Neoconservatives whose influence had been waning in Washington have hitched their colours to rising star Sarah Palin in a bid to shape US foreign policy for another decade.
Comments by the governor of Alaska in her first television interview, in which she said Nato may have to go to war with Russia and took a tough line on Iran's nuclear programme, were the result of two weeks of briefings by neoconservatives.
Sources in the McCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs Palin was identified as a potential future leader of the neoconservative cause in June 2007. That was when the annual summer cruise organised by the right-of-centre Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Governor Palin.
Her case as John McCain's running mate was later advanced vociferously by William Kristol, the magazine's editor, who is widely seen as one of the founding fathers of American neoconservative thought - including the robust approach to foreign policy which spurred American intervention in Iraq.
In 1988, Mr Kristol became a leading adviser of another inexperienced Republican vice presidential pick, Dan Quayle, tutoring him in foreign affairs. Last week he praised Mrs Palin as "a spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism" that "is haunting the liberal elites".
Now many believe that the "neocons", whose standard bearer in government, Vice President Dick Cheney, lost out in Washington power struggles to the more moderate defence secretary Robert Gates and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, last year are seeking to mould Mrs Palin to renew their influence.
A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, a bastion of Washington neoconservatism, admitted: "She's bright and she's a blank page. She's going places and it's worth going
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“Mrs Palin”
I just knew it was a conspiracy all along. The cruise, the thing about NATO. It all makes sense now. Those damn Jews!
Palin isn’t a neo-con. They crapped up this administration with their fiscal recklessness. Let’s not screw up this next one.
Senator Obama
Senator Biden
Mrs. Palin
Right, got that. A little put down. Keep it up.
“If this election doesn’t go McCain’s way, she will likely be put on the board of Goldman-Sachs, Buchanan said.” /s
Man I hate the word Neo-Con. So stupid. What did Rush say that it meant? Conservative Jew?
We need to start calling them Neo-Libs since Liberal change began when McGovern ran. They just like using that name to make it sound like Neo-NAZI.
It has nothing to do with religion. Neocons are domestic liberals who aren't wusses on foreign policy. In other words, the type that got booted from this site last year for pimping Giuliani. They're useless.
What exactly is a “neo-conservative”? I need to know if I am one.
A pro-war liberal. Is that you?
Cheney? Neocon?
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.”
“Neo-Con” is an anti-Semitic slur used by the left. You’ll hear it used liberally on call-in shows (radio, tv), especially C-Span. When the caller uses it against a Republican, you know they’re just another Democrat Nazi.
I don’t see Cheney as a neo-con. The left say that he is a stooge for the neo-cons.
Nope. Whew! I was worried.
Inconceivable!
It is. I use to mean socially liberal Republicans. Now it is applied to anyone who defends Israel.
What is this “neo”con thing they keep referring to?
lol - and all this time I thought she was Governor Palin. Does this mean we are now supposed to refer to Obama as Mr. Obama the community organizer?
Remember that the leader of the Neo-Cons is Emmanuel Goldstein, and that we have never been at war with Eastasia.
“Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is CNN”
Liberals can not be defeated legitimately. They’re sabotaged. There’s slick packaging and marketing. The elections get stolen. Mean, baseless attacks by the right wing Republican smear machine destroy their candidates. Kerry was swiftboated. Gore was robbed. Reagan had slick marketing. Bush questioned Dukakis’ patriotism.
I've heard Michael Savage mention this too.
LOL - I think you are right.
The opinions of neoconservatives, apparently, range only from neutral to vociferous. They can't be enthusiastic or anything. That might them appear human.
A Joooooooo.
Are you a Joooooooooo?
No, but my brother-in-law is and I had an uncle who was. LOL
The fact that many of the proponents are Jewish (e.g. Podhoretz) is purely incidental - unless they are immune from criticism because they're Jewish?
See, “neo” means new, and “con” means conservative, but “neocon” means “warmongering Joooooooo.”
Language is easy.
Isn’t there a Bund meeting somewhere you should be attending?
When Podhoretz and Irving Kristol self-identify as neoconservatives, surely it's fair game to criticize any shortcomings in their ideology.
You beat me to it...
2002 called. It wants its FR smear back.
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