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Owner59 -> RE: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? (11/22/2011 9:20:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
From my POV,it was when the neo-conservatives took over.It was a sea change.
The neo-cons pretty much turned every conservative ideal on it`s head.
I wouldn't disagree. But oddly enough, some of the definitions are surprising:
neoconservatism -n (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies ~World English Dictionary (Collins)
neoconservative -n moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists. ~Random House
neoconservative -n a former liberal espousing political conservatism ~Merriam Webster
K.
I`m going by the folks who called themselves "neo-cons", before neo-con became associated with Iraq,failure,torture and treason.
It was about a three-four year period just after 9/11 till about the time things-Iraq, became FUBAR.
I think they thought the term was sexy and .....well,"new".[:D]
It was for those short years, a name they embraced and used for themselves.
The war in Iraq was supposedly going good and the torrent of malfeasance and buffoonery hadn`t quite become known yet.The war in Afghanistan was just starting to be neglected and didn`t show it yet.
Starting around the time no WMD was found to about the time bush`s term was over,nobody,not even the neo-cons wanted to be called neo-cons.There was even a small effort to distance themselves from the term,some claiming they never used it.But it stuck.
Of course there are other definition and redefinitions but I`m refer to the members of PNAC,Project for the New American Century.The leadership of which strangely enough, became in charge of the world`s most powerful fighting force.
How is it that no one is interested in that strange coincidence?
How is it that a small obscure think-tank who espoused a belligerent preemptive war theory become the who`s who of the bush admin. and our Pentagon?
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