Reply #101: Please try to educate yourself so you know your opponent

[HamdenRice]

Those of us who are correcting you and others about the use of the term neo-con are not trying to nit pick. It's just that political labels are useful only if they are used correctly and with some precision.

Calling Rush Limbaugh a neo-con is like saying that John Kerry won the primaries because he had legions of Deaniac supporting him. It's just wrong, incorrect. Deaniacs is a term used to describe people who support Dean, not people who support Kerry.

A lot of what you are saying is as ridiculous as saying, "Ted Kennedy represents the Democratic Leadership Council wing of the Democratic Party." The DNC is the Clinton-Gore wing of the party. Again, to say otherwise is just plain wrong.

When the major newspapers and political analysts use the term neo-con they are talking about a specific group of people, with particular positions in the administration.

Neo-cons are not the main supporters of tax breaks for the rich, as you asset. I'm not sure that the neo-cons in the administration even give a rat's ass about tax policy at all.

The neo-cons within the administration are concerned almost exclusively with foreign policy -- the war in Iraq and policy toward Israel.

They have caused the worst catastrophe in the history of US foreign policy (Iraq) and worse, they have some very nasty ideas up their sleeves. You cannot begin to help prevent further catastrophe if you don't even know who they are or what their goals are.

Try to get informed about this for the sake of the country -- and your threads here at DU