Article written about Santorum(Phil I wouldn't click on this thread).

[Deano963]

Despite my obvious policy disagreements with him, I respect Santorum's intellectual savvy

what

[Deano963]

Despite my obvious policy disagreements with him, I respect Santorum's intellectual savvy

what

He's a very smart person. C'mon, you can respect someone even if you don't like them.

Of course I can, but I also won't say that said person posesses intellectual savvy when they simply don't. Heck, there are people I DO LIKE who I won't say that they are intellectually savvy. Santorum was simply NOT a very smart guy.

Nor he is a "neo-con" at all, unless we've watered that term down to include basically any enemy of the left.

Are you kidding? Santorum was one of the poster-boys of neoconservatism.

[Deano963]

Are you kidding? Santorum was one of the poster-boys of neoconservatism.

Neocons usually care very little for social issues and are usually liberal in those areas.

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Name some neocons who are socially liberal and I will name many more who are socially conservative.

[Deano963]

Are you kidding? Santorum was one of the poster-boys of neoconservatism.

Neocons usually care very little for social issues and are usually liberal in those areas.

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Name some neocons who are socially liberal and I will name many more who are socially conservative.

Goldwater it turned it was more socially liberal, If you considered him a neocon.

Well I certainly don't consider Goldwater a neocon, and I don't think any sane person would. He was the original conservative, as far as modern history goes. If anything, he is a paleocon.

[Deano963]

he must also be spinning in his grave if he sees what the Republican party has become today.

Agreed.

[Deano963]

Neoconservatism does not deal with social issues at all.

I mentioned that social issues didn't play much of a role.

As for a neocon who is socially liberal, Deano, I think Condi Rice is a good example. Neocons don't put an emphasis on social issues.

Wow. One example.

Ashcroft, Cheney, Gingrich, Bush, Rove, Murdoch, Kissinger and Armitage - a few neocons who are social conservatives.

And besides, I never said that neocons DO put emphasis on social issues. You're the one who brought up the whole social issues thing. All I said was that Santorum is a neocon - which he is. He is a neocon on foreign policy as well as a far-right social conservative.