The Neoconservative Reference List

Don't know how we missed Kirchick up till now! IMHO, Wahl is too small potatoes (at this point). It was an interesting episode though. RT was really pwned by that infiltrator. If she gets a new job, maybe we can add her.
I mentioned Kirchick :cool:

Wahl is a nobody though. Heck, she hasn't even advocated for neoconservatism as far as I know.
 
What about ACT! for America, Americanism Educational Leaders?

Good call that led to Brigitte Gabriel. She was on Cavuto tonight, and she is quite a piece of work. Didn't know who she was until today. Recognized her voice from radio shows. She is a true neocon angry-bird.

Never heard of them. They don't seem to be textbook, think-tank neoconservative, but "ACT! for America" seems to be pushing aspects of the agenda. Their founder (Brigitte Gabriel) can certainly make the list. She already has an entry at Rightweb. Seems like a Hagee type, very useful to neoconservatives. If we include Hagee, we should include her. Maybe we need a category for useful idiots?
 
Note on Jesse Watters:

Had the unfortunate experience of seeing Jesse Watters sitting in on The Five today. Obvious neoconservative is obvious.

Any other links or input?
 
Bit surprised that covert lefty neocons like Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry are not on the list.

Dianne Feinstein
Feinstein supported the Iraq war resolution in the vote of October 11, 2002; she has claimed that she was misled by President Bush on the reasons for going to war. However, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter has stated that Feinstein in summer 2002 acknowledged to him that she knew the Bush administration had not provided any convincing intelligence to back up its claims about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.[SUP]


[/SUP]Brian Schweitzer: Eric Cantor Sets Off My 'Gaydar'
By National Journal Staff

In an in-depth profile by National Journal's Marin Cogan, Schweitzer, a Democrat, says that Southern men strike him as "effeminate," says that ousted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set off his "gaydar," and suggests that Sen. Dianne Feinstein was a streetwalker for the U.S. intelligence community.
"She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees," Schweitzer says of Feinstein, "and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying I mean, maybe that's the wrong metaphor—but she was all in!"

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Bit surprised that covert lefty neocons like Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry are not on the list.

That is the open question...

If we had a sub-list for neo-liberal interventionists, Brzezinski would certainly be on the list. What other prominent people would be on a neo-liberal interventionist list? Members of the Obama Administration? Any advisers to Hitlary Clinton?

If we listed neo-lib interventionists, who would we put on the list?

And now that many of the neoconservatives are openly returning to their leftist roots, the line between the Leninist neo-lib socialists and the Trotskyite neoconservatives is being blurred.
 
Notes on Bradley Blakeman:

Brad Blakeman was a guest on a Fox News show today, foaming away with the standard neoconservative talking points. Another TV and media neoconservative propagandist.

Bradley A. Blakeman

Bradley A. Blakeman most recently was the President of Freedom’s Watch a right of center conservative advocacy 501 C4. Prior to founding Freedom’s Watch, Mr. Blakeman was a member of President George W. Bush’s Senior Staff having served from 2001-2004 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling, Vetting and Research, Correspondence and Surrogate Scheduling. Mr. Blakeman can be seen regularly as a Republican Strategist on FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. He had also been published recently in POLITICO, US News and World Report and Newsmax.
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More:
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/bradley_a_blakeman.html

Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials

Bradley Blakeman, the president of Freedom’s Watch, who left the Bush administration as an assistant deputy to the president.

Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.

Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States, according to several benefactors of the group.

Although the group declined to identify the experts, several were invited from the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington research group with close ties to the White House.
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Since the group is organized as a tax-exempt organization, it does not have to reveal its donors and it can not engage in certain types of partisan activities that directly support political candidates. It denies coordinating its activities with the White House, although many of its donors and organizers are well connected to the administration, including Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary.
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Among the group’s founders are Sheldon G. Adelson, the chairman and chief executive of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, who ranks sixth on the Forbes Magazine list of the world’s billionaires; Mel Sembler, a shopping center magnate based in St. Petersburg, Fla., who served as the ambassador to Italy and Australia; John M. Templeton Jr., the conservative philanthropist from Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Anthony H. Gioia, a former ambassador to Malta who heads an investment group based in Buffalo, N.Y. All four men are long-time prolific donors who have raised money on behalf of Republican and conservative causes.
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Mr. Sembler, who is on the board of directors of the American Enterprise Institute, said the impetus for Freedom’s Watch “came out of A.E.I.” last winter. ...
Over the summer, Mr. Fleischer and the other founders recruited a president, choosing Mr. Blakeman, who served as a deputy assistant to the president in charge of scheduling and appointments. In 2000, Mr. Blakeman led the Bush-Cheney campaign’s public relations effort during the 36 days of the deadlocked election. He left the White House in January 2004.

Mr. Blakeman and Mr. Fleischer said they intended to turn Freedom’s Watch into a permanent fixture among Washington advocacy groups, waging a “never-ending campaign” on an array of foreign policy and domestic issues. They also hope to build an active, grass-roots support network.
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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.html
 
Mel Sembler added.

Melvin Sembler, a real estate magnate and strip-mall developer, is an important Republican Party donor who has supported several neoconservative-aligned groups. ... An adviser to Mitt Romney during the race for the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination, ...
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Sembler has been a consistent supporter of militarist advocacy campaigns for many years, serving on the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and joining the likes of Sheldon Adelson to bankroll the lobbying group Freedom's Watch, which was founded in 2007 in part to promote the hardline Middle East agenda pushed by the George W. Bush administration.

Sembler also supported the Liz Cheney-led pressure group Keep America Safe (KAS). Established in 2009 to create political ads attacking Democrats and promote a hawkish view of U.S. security, KAS advisers have included neoconservative pundits William Kristol and Michael Goldfarb. Discussing his support for the group, Sembler told Newsweek, "I love Liz Cheney and what she's doing," stating that he intended to be "as supportive [of KAS] as my budget will allow."[4]

Sembler also supported former Bush administration figure I. Lewis Libby by serving as chairman of the Libby Legal Defense Fund, which raised money for the ultimately unsuccessful defense of Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief staffer, against perjury and other charges related to the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name.[5]

While the overwhelming majority of the candidates Sembler has supported have been Republicans, he has supported some Democrats,...
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Besides his long-standing association with the Bush family, which stems back to the late 1970s when he served as a fund-raiser for Bush Senior's presidential campaign, Sembler is well known for establishing a controversial drug treatment program for teens called "Straight." ...
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Journalist Maia Szalavitz, who has reported extensively on teen rehab programs and focused on Straight Incorporated in the first two chapters of her 2006 book Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, summarized some of her findings in a 2006 presentation: "Straight … put kids on peanut-butter-only diets for weeks, kept them awake with no sleep whatsoever for days, forced them to spank each other and made them maintain various stress positions or exercise to the point of exhaustion. It constantly humiliated participants, famously gagging some with Kotex, calling girls 'sluts' and boys 'fags' and making those who had been sexually abused take responsibility for their 'part' in seducing the pedophiles who had molested them. Straight also extensively used isolation and restraint."
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Despite the problems with Straight, Sembler went on to found another anti-drug group, the Drug Free America Foundation.[13]
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More:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Sembler_Melvin
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Persons associated with the PNAC

Project directors

[as listed on the PNAC website:]

William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman[1]
Robert Kagan, Co-founder[1]
Bruce P. Jackson[1]



Mark Gerson[1]
Randy Scheunemann[1]

Project staff

Ellen Bork, Deputy Director[1]
Gary Schmitt, Senior Fellow[1][51]
Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow[1]
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow[1]



Mitch Jackson, Senior Fellow
Timothy Lehmann, Assistant Director[1]
Michael Goldfarb, Research Associate[1]

Former directors and staff

Daniel McKivergan, Deputy Director[52]

Signatories to Statement of Principles

Elliott Abrams[3]
Gary Bauer[3]
William J. Bennett[3]
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush[3]
Dick Cheney[3]
Eliot A. Cohen[3]
Midge Decter[3]
Paula Dobriansky[3]
Steve Forbes[3]
Aaron Friedberg[3]
Francis Fukuyama[3]
Frank Gaffney[3]
Fred C. Ikle[3]



Donald Kagan[3]
Zalmay Khalilzad[3]
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby[3]
Norman Podhoretz[3]
J. Danforth Quayle[3]
Peter W. Rodman[3]
Stephen P. Rosen[3]
Henry S. Rowen[3]
Donald Rumsfeld[3]
Vin Weber[3]
George Weigel[3]
Paul Wolfowitz[3]

Signatories or contributors to other significant letters or reports[16]

Elliott Abrams[10][12]
Kenneth Adelman[53]
Richard V. Allen[19]
Richard L. Armitage[12]
Gary Bauer[19][53]
Jeffrey Bell[19][53]
William J. Bennett[10][12][19][53]
Jeffrey Bergner[10][12][19]
John Bolton[10][12]
Ellen Bork[53]
Rudy Boschwitz[19]
Linda Chavez[53]
Eliot Cohen[15][19][53]
Seth Cropsey[19]
Midge Decter[19][53]
Paula Dobriansky[10][12]
Thomas Donnelly[15][19][53]
Nicholas Eberstadt,[19][53][54]
Hillel Fradkin[19][53][55]
Aaron Friedberg[19]
Francis Fukuyama[10][12][19]
Frank Gaffney[19][53]
Jeffrey Gedmin[19][53]
Reuel Marc Gerecht[19][53]
Charles Hill[19][53]
Bruce P. Jackson[19][53]
Eli S. Jacobs[19]
Michael Joyce[19]
Donald Kagan[15][19][53]
Robert Kagan[10][12][15][19][53]
Stephen Kantany
Zalmay Khalilzad[10][12]



Jeane Kirkpatrick[19]
Charles Krauthammer[19]
William Kristol[10][12][15][19]
John Lehman[19][53]
I. Lewis Libby[15]
Tod Lindberg[53][56]
Rich Lowry[53]
Clifford May[19][53]
John McCain[57]
Joshua Muravchik[53]
Michael E. O'Hanlon [58][59]
Martin Peretz[19][53]
Richard Perle[10][12][19][53]
Daniel Pipes[53]
Norman Podhoretz[19][53]
Peter W. Rodman[10][12][19]
Stephen P. Rosen[15][19][53]
Donald Rumsfeld[10][12]
Randy Scheunemann[19][53]
Gary Schmitt[15][19][51][53]
William Schneider, Jr.[10][12][19][53]
Richard H. Shultz[19][60]
Henry Sokolski[19]
Stephen J. Solarz[19]
Vin Weber[10][12][19]
Leon Wieseltier[19]
Marshall Wittmann[19][53]
Paul Wolfowitz[10][12][15]
R. James Woolsey[10][12][53]
Dov Zakheim[15][61]
Robert B. Zoellick[10][12]
 
Related:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?460974-Marco-Rubio-The-Neocon-Candidate

The Neocons Return
Meet their 2016 candidate, Marco Rubio.
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His loose circle of advisers includes former national-security adviser Stephen Hadley, former deputy national-security adviser Elliott Abrams, Brookings Institution scholar and former Reagan-administration aide Robert Kagan, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol...
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“I think it’s very important that any isolationist arguments be defeated well and be defeated early,” says a neoconservative foreign-policy expert who talks with Rubio frequently.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389598/neocons-return-eliana-johnson
 
Related:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?460974-Marco-Rubio-The-Neocon-Candidate



The Neocons Return
Meet their 2016 candidate, Marco Rubio.
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His loose circle of advisers includes former national-security adviser Stephen Hadley, former deputy national-security adviser Elliott Abrams, Brookings Institution scholar and former Reagan-administration aide Robert Kagan, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol...
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“I think it’s very important that any isolationist arguments be defeated well and be defeated early,” says a neoconservative foreign-policy expert who talks with Rubio frequently.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...eliana-johnson

You know, the thing with all of this "isolationist" speak is that these people are only discussing the phenomenon within context of physical combat and war in the middle east along with the so called war on terrorism. They're watering down the term in a way that creates a comfortable kind of hurry up and just get elected situation where they don't really have to provide a position on foreign policy/isolationism as a whole. This stimulates a platform for a rather romper-room manner of debate with regard to foreign policy once those start to happen as well. Economic isolationism won't get touched with a ten foot pole and foreign policy will continue to be relegated to the war on terrorism...again.

Economically, the U.S. is isolating itself from a large (and growing) fraction of the globe and so what are they saying about that phenomenon? That is isolationism too. I haven't heard a peep. It's like crickets. So then Rubio won't defeat squat in the isolationist department of the debate until he addresses it in the correct scope. Which he won't. I don't even think he's qualified or even has a functional knowledge of the history of these nations to attempt it. That's very important. Nope. Any speak of isolationism he'll keep in the context of the war on terrorism gag. Of course, that's already scripted for him and so he just has to read from a teleprompter or something. We ask, you decide and all of that.

What is interesting to me in that paper is the thing about Ukraine because that is one topic of discussion that should absolutely be discussed in terms of economic isolation if you're going to bring Russia into it. But what they do is they bring Russia into the model in a way that keeps the economic aspect out of the equation and then try to sell the idea that Russia invaded them. Which they didn't. Cripes, they're the ones sending fleets of trucks with aid to these innocent people who have had their infrastructure, homes and lives obliterated as a result of what is essentially a coup installed governing body. It's not like we're stupid or something. And so I just stopped reading the paper at that point.

What is happening there is a result of the actions of economic hitmen.
 
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Notes on Rep. Adam Kinzinger:


Constantly acts as head cheerleader for the MIC/neoconservative agenda:
(False) Claim: Rand Paul's budget would cut military in half






Frequent guest on MIC/establishment/progressive/neo-conservative shows such as Meet the (Neoconservative) Press and This Week.

FreedomWorks scorecard of Kinzinger's anti-freedom votes:
http://congress.freedomworks.org/legislators/adam-kinzinger

 
Here's another.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/american-wars-to-prevent-the-wars-of-others/

Seth Mandel is a neoconservative. Therefore, most of what he says has nothing to do with augmenting the common good of Americans and everything to do with diminishing it. He will defend Bibi Netanyahu to the hilt as here, ignoring the abundant negatives that have flowed from the U.S. embrace of Israel.

Mandel wants the global war on terror to go on and on even though the war on terror is producing new terrorists at a greater rate than it is diminishing them. Why?

“The war on terror is far more relevant to America’s day-to-day security maintenance because it involves the prevention of the multitude of threats to the American homeland.”
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Mandel has a strange new justification for the war on terror:

“The global war on terror, then, can be just as much about preventing additional land wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.”
 
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