No.
Posted on 08/14/2014 12:22:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
She remains today about as conservative as a RINO. She will talk conservative if she thinks it will garner her support, but she will act as conservative as Juan McLame.
True enough. Neocon nowadays means a war hawk or interventionist. The pre-history isn't all that relevant.
If William Kristol or John Podhoretz isn't 100% in agreement on some issues with the most conservative wing of the GOP, neither are a lot of Republicans, including many whose parents weren't left-liberals or Trotskyites.
About 1986, Joe Lieberman formed the DLC on the premise that if the democrat party keeps running leftist/populist/socialist candidates like Mondale against moderate republicans like Reagan, the dems would never hold the presidency again.
Bill Clinton replaced Lieberman as head of the DLC and then became prez, the 3rd way, compromising, new democrat. The left wing was displeased with Clinton over NAFTA and welfare reform so they started calling the DLC the republican wing of the democrat party.
So the DLC became the home of the corporatist democrats and the Liberal Interventionist foreign policy doctrine. But eventually the name DLC became a bad name and was disbanded. Nobody would serve as president of DLC with Harold Ford being the last.
The Liberal Interventionists and NeoCons often agree on foreign policy issues. They are both Idealists big on humanitarianism, nation building, spreading democracy, and regime change.
But they differ in that the liberal Interventionists are multilateralists and the NeoCons are unilateralists.
Scratch a neo-con and there will always be a liberal under the thin veneer of fake conservatism ...
Okay, why would anyone who lives in a multi million dollar mansion in Chappaqua need to go to Martha’s Vineyard on vacation?
No.
Now there you have me.
If I lived anywhere in that bastion of liberal absurdity I would need to move permanently to Possom Hollow to preserve what is left of my sanity. I would rather be five miles off the nearest two lane blacktop than anywhere within a hundred miles of anywhere that Hillary Clinton would want to live.
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