....the "progressive" Left always prefers a neoconservative to an antiwar libertarian. That's Woods' Law #2. They can overlook the support for war, the centralization of power (what "progressive" would disagree with that these days?), the encroachments on civil liberties. That's all fine and ...dandy. But someone who opposes the initiation of violence against peaceful people? Get him! So many so-called progressives, it turns out, are really just neocons with sandals. Political centralization, comic-book-style demonization of dissent -- these people deserve each other. I am under attack from these people because I wonder if 300 million people ruled from one city is the most humane way to live. Don't I know I am not supposed to ask such a heretical question?
The left loves a neocon. But they don’t so much overlook support for the war as complain how immoral it is as a tool to attack Republicans in general, then clamp up when it’s a progressive either continuing the wars they said they would stop (Obama in Iraq and Afghanistan), or start new ones of their own (Clinton in the Balkans).