Gee...I wish I were smart enough to comprehend WHY the neocons are in the GOP and NOT the Democratic Party if they're closer to liberals than conservatives...
I guess it takes a "
SPECIAL" kind of intelligence...


Gee... I wish you werre smart enough to give an actual meaningful definition of "neocon" instead of simply brandishing that meaningless term as a weapon whenever you need a handy rock to throw at something.
Why would a neocon need to go and join a Party that is already what we nowadays laughingly call "liberal?" Do you comprehend the nature of what a "neocon" is?
Don't bother trying to strain your brain to answer that one. The question was rhetorical. You've already proved that you don't have the first clue what you're talking about.
Ah, a challenge from a pea brain...it's CLEAR you don't have a clue what a neocon is...I NEVER use the word neocon to describe ordinary right wing pea brains...
The neoconservative or neocons...
The original neocons were a small group of mostly Jewish liberal intellectuals who, in the 1960s and 70s, grew disenchanted with what they saw as the American left's social excesses and reluctance to spend adequately on defense. Many of these neocons worked in the 1970s for Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a staunch anti-communist. By the 1980s, most neocons had become Republicans, finding in President Ronald Reagan an avenue for their aggressive approach of confronting the Soviet Union with bold rhetoric and steep hikes in military spending.
Irving Kristol
Widely referred to as the "
godfather" of neoconservatism, Mr. Kristol was part of the "New York Intellectuals," a group of critics mainly of Eastern European Jewish descent. In the late 1930s, he studied at City College of New York where he became a
Trotskyist. From 1947 to 1952, he was the managing editor of Commentary magazine, later called the "neocon bible."
By the late 1960s, Kristol had shifted from left to right on the political spectrum, due partly to what he considered excesses and anti-Americanism among liberals. Kristol built the intellectual framework of neoconservatism, founding and editing journals such as The Public Interest and The National Interest.
Kristol is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of numerous books, including "Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea." He is the father of Weekly Standard editor and oft-quoted neoconservative William Kristol.
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