Neo-Conservatism is not thrifty. Think if these dollars were spent domestically or not at all.
I don't know who Neo is but conservatives want less spending, smaller government and more fiscal responsibility. If you're trying to blame them so nobody questions the insane spending by the left, it ain't gonna happen.
You only describe fiscal conservatism. Neo- is the millitary industrial complex' grip on the GOP. Social- is the evangelical grip on the GOP. There's more money and power behind the latter two, which is why there haven't been any small-gov fiscal conservatives since... The 1920s? Maybe since, but I struggle to think of a president who'd set aside millitary lobbies for conservative principles.
Oh, the industrial military complex. You mean the ones the Democrats are in bed with. How do they get a pass in your mind? No small government conservatives since the 20s huh? You must be shooting pure morphine in your temples.
I'm not a democrat, bud. The whole government and military is influenced by our industry, of course. After McCain Feingold, I thought that the GOP entertained more hardline support from the MIC, marginalizing fiscal conservatism to talk rather than practice.
Can you help me with a gov't shrinking prez in the last 50-80 yrs? We've had wars and things that make this impossible even if the president had the principles in their heart. Who do you have in mind? How can you show that we've ever rolled back government since the turn of the last century?