neocon

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It's one thing to be a RINO or a neocon, and quite another to be a conservative in the sense that you believe in a liited federal government bound not to exceed the powers specifically delegated and enumerated in the Constitution.

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  1. noun Informal A neoconservative: "The neocons and hard-liners have long felt that no Soviet leader could be trusted” (New York Times).

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  • Rather than a newspaper committed to the truth and favoring a broad debate about important issues, the Washington Post has become an enforcement mechanism for a neocon-dominated Establishment, setting the parameters for permissible points of view and twisting facts for that purpose.
  • Unless you are a neocon, there is nothing appealing about Palin. —  First Read
  • The danger is always, rather, calcification of thought and socialized group-think - what we used to call the neocon slide (the ten minutes when a liberal-becoming-a-conservative was interesting). —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  • He's been called a neocon, but that's not consistent with his attitude to America which he thinks '… is the greatest threat to world civilisation' - whatever that is. —  The British National Party
  • As a true neocon, friendship, truth, the law, and honor are alien concepts. —  Signs of the Times
 

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