[billbears]

absurd extreme where Dick Cheney is considered by them to be a leading neoconservative

LOL!! Perhaps you haven't checked out the New American Century website run by the Kristolites of which Cheney was a part of up until 1998. It's not absurd, it's fact

[William McKinley]

As I said- it is a redefinition of terms that renders the term neoconservative meaningless.

Bill Bennett, neocon?

Steve Forbes, neocon?

Gary Bauer, neocon?

Francis Fukuyama, neocon?

Only one definition seems consistent in the paleo lingo- anyone claiming to be a conservative, or labelled as a conservative by the media, who is not a paleoconservative, must be a neoconservative.