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I mentioned KirchickDon'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.
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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?
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?
Had the unfortunate experience of seeing Jesse Watters sitting in on The Five today. Obvious neoconservative is obvious.
A Dick and Liz Cheney organization which is stereotypical neoconservative:
http://strongeramerica.com/about/
This list needs more neo-libs
Bit surprised that covert lefty neocons like Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry are not on the list.
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?
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
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
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
Member of the establishment/RINO Main Street Partnership:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ference-List&p=5513374&viewfull=1#post5513374
‘Main Street’ GOP Groups and Their Leftist Funders:
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...ups-and-their-leftist-funders-michelle-malkin
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
Kinzinger gets a Club for Growth score of 49%:
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/wp-con...ary/scorecard-detail.php?name=Kinzinger,+Adam
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.”