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They must be quite angry at the old man after wasting the last few months and expending whatever credibility they once had on the laughable "neocons don't exist" argument.

I tried to explain this to some Freepers a while back-- that it was the neo-cons themselves that conjured up the term "neo-conservative" to define their ideology.

I'm not sure where the confusion on this started but it was around the time the CONS where coming under fire in the press on the revelation of the now infamous letter. The letter that a number of high profile Cons wrote back in the early Clinton days revealing their plans of global conquest if they ever got into power.

I suspect that their initial reaction upon this disclosure was to deny that their nefarious political movement even exists...lol. Glad to see their God Father clear the air on this.

Laughable is indeed the word. "Neocon" used to be the hippest thing to be called back when I was in college in the early 90's. I even called myself one. I was a "National Review" reading, "Commentary" consuming freak back in those days. Then- when Pat Buchanan came out against the first Gulf War (geesh- I wonder if 9/11 would ever have happened if we fought that stupid war to protect a bunch of corrupt kleptocrats in Kuwait?) my initial reaction was anger and I wondered why he doing this (I had read and admired his stuff for years). But over time and with the end of the Cold War I began to see that our foreign policy was trying to find enemies in order to justify our huge military and in turn justify the welfare state.

Is it a coincedence that because conservatives like Buchanan and Sobran who both opposed the first Gulf War were then drummed out of the "conservative movement" in 1992 with the publishing of a shameful special issue of National Review entitled "In Search of Anti Semitism" written by Buckley himself? That was the first sign to me that something was wrong with "mainstream" conservatism.

It has been a long road since and I have had to let go of a lot of deeply held myths since the first time I heard Buchanan denounce the first Gulf War back in 90. (My first reaction was one of anger- but it planted a seed in me).