Reply #10: Nope, she's a right winger. They named the "Vulcans" after her home town

[Bucky]

She had to grow up a bit and start acting more mature when Bush ran out their resident babysitter, Powell. Forced into his place, she started favoring diplomacy more and Cheney-like hollow bluster less. But of course by then she was working surrounded by the diplos at Foggy Bottom rather than the hard corps ideologues in the West Wing. Never a strong intellect, she was easily swayed to mainstream (ie, nonmoronic) conservative foreign policy thinking.

But she was always a neocon and will always be one. It's just in her present job, she's being forced into occasional spats of sanity.