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I don't think the "former liberal" description is that accurate, though I've seen it thrown around.
For sure some of the "early" neoconservative thinkers were former socialists, but the current crop were more intellectual conservatives that rejected the liberalisim of the Vietnam war.
Funny thing is that so many Goldwater and Reagan conservatives (including perhaps Bush 43) are just now realizing that they've been duped into aligning themselves with the neoconservatives simply because they saw liberal democrats as the only other alternative.
There is a tremendous number of disenfranchised moderates out there looking for leadership.
-spence
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