2007-05-15 23:07:00 · 11 answers · asked by Bill Smith 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
My earliest memory of that was Bush41 using it as a negative label, similar to calling someone a commie, in his debates against Dukakis. He had been fighting his own political reputation as a "wimp" and needed to make himself look strong so he found a way to do so. Then conservative pundits like Rush picked up on it and hatred and vilification in GOP politics grew more and more steadily from there. Conservatives have been making ad hominem and straw man arguments ever since and now they have a whole propaganda machine in Fox News to take such rhetoric global.
2007-05-15 23:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by BOOM 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It became an insult when liberals became ashamed of themselves. They treid to call themselves progressives for awhile. The liberals try the same game- hence the term neocon. But true conservatives are proud of what they are, so no matter how the leberals try to make neocon a bad word, it hasn't happened.
2007-05-16 07:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It became an insult when people referred to radicals as liberals, much the same way that conservative is an insult when reactionaries are considered conservative.
2007-05-16 06:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jam_Til_Impact 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't - I am quite proud of it.
Cons seem to think it is - but then again they have also used words like intellectual as a sign of contempt. Says a lot more about them than us (whether that be liberals or intellectuals).
I am more wondering why the sort of ignorance that leads to people not being able to differentiate between liberalism and communism became something to be proud of?
2007-05-16 06:11:51 · answer #4 · answered by Sageandscholar 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
it happened with the last presidential term before george bushbecause when the last liberal leader behaves like this in office, its not exactly a call for national unity and most non extremists learn to call them as they see them
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
2007-05-16 06:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When they stated electing lily livered, peacenik,
hand wringing, alarmists who think this is a replay of Vietnam.
2007-05-16 06:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by FOA 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
When neocons started having success twisting the minds of the uneducated in the bible belt.
2007-05-16 06:12:12 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew c 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It is only an insult to those too small minded to understand what it really means.
2007-05-16 06:11:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Liberalism in the classic sense is a sham and a fraud and is inherently malevolent but disguised as benevolent.It only gets worse from there.
2007-05-16 06:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by wqfahuar 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
When politicians like Reid and Pelosi began describing themselves as liberal.
2007-05-16 06:11:22 · answer #10 · answered by TE 5 · 4⤊ 5⤋