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Originally posted by KSigkid
Also, RACooper, are you equating rabid conservatives with neo-conservatives? I had always thought that the first neo-conservatives were Democrats who had moved to the Republican party during the Nixon administration. Although they were rather hawkish on foreign policy, they also rejected small government, especially when it comes to social issues. I could be wrong though; my history degree could be failing me on this one.
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Nope - as you'll note I said "or"; because they both represent different aspects of the American conservative spectrum... both roughly out on the fringe, in only that they don't represent the majority of conservatives - they just seem to be the most vocal or at least the ones that can out yell others. For example to me the rabid conservatives are the ones that are fanatically partisan willing to believe only the evil in other political parties, while only seeing the best in theirs...
It's just I don't see conservatives as some giant monolithic entity - might have to do with enduring some Canadian Conservative Party policy and nomination rallies...
I'm trying to remember the term used to describe neo-cons back around the Nixon era... the Prof. said something about liberals that got mugged or raped by reality - or something like that.