Bill Kristol

[Okie RP fan]

Team Kristol and the neocons need to go BACK to the Democrat Party where they came from. The "neocons" were a wing of the Democrat Party for many years. Except that they weren't called neocons until 1973. There is no long tradition of neocon in the Republican Party. They didn't start getting jobs with Republicans until the 1980s.

Many of us here bitch and moan about Establishment RINOs. Establishment RINOs are not neocons. Establishment RINOs typically beat Conservatives. Going back to 1940, Wendell Wilkie, Thomas Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, all Establishment RINOs. The Conservatives got Goldwater and Reagan.

The neocons are not of the Establishment RINO tradition. When Wilkie and Dewey were being nominated, the neocons were sitting in coffeeshops in NYC talking about how much they liked Trotsky, and they were all Democrats, if not registered Communists.

Good points.

I think the establishment in this race is Gingrich and Romney. With Santorum and Bachmann (no longer running) being the neocons.
However, Gingrich is a putrid mixture of neocon/establishment.

 

[unknown]

This Ron Paul video will help you understand where Bill Crystal is coming from:
(Ron Paul names Neo-Cons on House Floor - July 10, 2003)

Wow, America has been hijacked...

 

[pahs1994]

When you look up NEOCON, his picture is there.

Lol no picture, but he is listed at the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

 

[parocks]

Good points.

I think the establishment in this race is Gingrich and Romney. With Santorum and Bachmann (no longer running) being the neocons.
However, Gingrich is a putrid mixture of neocon/establishment.

I dunno about that. I'd say none of them are neocons. The neocon foreign policy is the mainstream republican foreign policy.

Neocons aren't socons.

 

[Deborah K]

I dunno about that. I'd say none of them are neocons. The neocon foreign policy is the mainstream republican foreign policy.

Neocons aren't socons.

Kristol is backing Santorum. If he isn't a neocon, then he can be bought by one.

 

[parocks]

Kristol is backing Santorum. If he isn't a neocon, then he can be bought by one.

Kristol most certainly is the most famous neocon today. Neocon politicians are rare. The neocon foreign policy is the mainstream republican foreign policy right now. If Kristol is backing Santorum, that's fine. Kristol and the neocons don't say "no one but ?". Kristol wants someone who will back Israel 100%, and will say nice things about that candidate, and apparently tell people who disagree to leave the Republican Party. I would guess that Kristol would prefer that Santorum not have "man on dog" on his resume. But Santorum is taking the neocon foreign policy 100% and that's good enough for Kristol.

If Ron Paul won the Republican Nomination, Kristol would back Obama, and tell others to back Obama.

 

[zweezey]

Kristol says he is mildly pro gold standard and is against the fed in his latest C span interview.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PrimaryFie