Do you draw a line differentiating between Conservatives and Neocons?

Question

Certainly Eisenhower was a Conservative and a good President, but GW Bush is a Neocon and a terrible one. There must be something differentiating between the two opposed policies. Maybe it's the cut taxes and spend less vs. the cut taxes and spend more.

Answer 1

Yes, the conservatives blame the neocons for the failures of the Bush administration, while admitting no culpability themselves. In other words, the neocons have been made into a scapegoat. Back when people liked Bush's agenda, conservatives admired Rove and Wolfowitz, but now they're trying to wash their hands of them - "they didn't represent REAL conservatives." Right. Elect another Republican and subsidize four more years of corporate greed.

Answer 2

Conservatives ARE Republican. Just because they might agree with one or two issues of a Liberal, doesn't make them one. Besides Neocon is not a legtitimate name for a Conservative. It's a name Liberals use...meant to insult. It doesn't. It makes me acknowledge the bias, and unfairness Libs use when they ask a Conservative a "question".

Answer 3

I don't divide the Republicans that way. I think of it in terms of the original Republicans -- who stand for the Constitution, individual liberties, lower taxes, and smaller government -- versus the Social Conservatives (Theocrats, American Taliban), who want to ban Gay marriage, ban abortion, and make Evangelical Fundamentalist Christianity the State Religion at the expense of all other religions (including all other Christian denominations.) Because the Religious Reich has become such a large force in the Republican party, I thought for the longest time that they were the "enemies" in the "Culture War." I have come to regard the Republican Party as the battlefield, not the enemy. And I am now a registered Republican. I like Giuliani, McCain, and Ron Paul. I oppose Romney, Hunter, Thompson, and Huckabee. But what I don't want is for a social conservative to win the primary. Please, don't make me have to vote for Hitlery, PLEASE!!!

Answer 4

Yes, necons are clearly conservatives with a little too much zeal to go to war. They generally advocate torture and bad treatment for any non-American that might be suspected of harboring ill will towards us. If they could experience half of the personal policies they embrace, I have no doubt they'd change their mind. I am a conservative, I consider neocon a dirty word.

Answer 5

Moody Red said it like it is! Neocons are Trotskyites and Struassians who've hijacked The Republican Party. Luckily for them- most Bush supporters have never troubled to research their origins.

what would Joe McCarthy say?

Answer 6

Well they are both conservative, but not one in the same. Neocons like most conservatives are about smaller government, lower taxes, individual freedom, less regulation, states rights. But they are also about US economic and political imperialism, out to remake the world in our image.

Many 'conservatives' are really Social conservatives that would ban abortion, ban same sex marriage, ban sex education, ban birth control, institutionalize their religion in government and public life, and generally control people they do not like and punish behavior they do not like. Neocons are not these people.

But social conservatives and Neocons have hitched their horses to the same wagon and labeled it 'conservative'. They are stuck in a rut and their horses are pulling in different directions.

Answer 7

Yes there is nothing to compare, neocon is just a term for a non exisitent entitly which loony liberal left's are pumping out there I suppose to have an enemy.

Answer 8

I don't use the term Neoconservative, but I do know the difference. As in the actual definitions

Answer 9

I have been called everything except a Child of God

Answer 10

I think an appropriate analogy would be the difference between a "bleeding heart liberal" and a "left-wing nut".