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BluePatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:50 PM
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Label or name for non-NeoCon Republicans?
My dad just called over lunch, with a sheepish question. He doesn't really know where to fit in. Rush on the radio, for the first time maybe ever, was pissing him off. He hadn't heard Rush in a few years and was shocked at the change he noticed in the rhetoric. Enough to ask my opinion. :) He has a political identity crisis on his hands so I am going to start filling him in more thoroughly on the neocon agenda. Maybe it will be enough to steer him Independent at least...

So, I ask DUer's: do "traditional" or "old school" Republicans have a label, ala the Neo-Cons? What would you call a traditional, tolerable Republican in today's climate? (besides nearly extinct...ha...)

Thanks GD,

BluePatriot
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:53 PM
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1. paleocon n/t
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BluePatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:56 PM
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5. That's pretty good.
I like the dinosaur aspect, hehe. Decent way of conveying near extinction.

*chooses Paleo-Con*

*Now I will go to lunch and watch this degenerate into a funny name-the-Pubs thread*
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:14 PM
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11. There's even a wikipedia entry.

So if they don't accept the term, tell them to google it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocon
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:54 PM
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2. Rip Van Republican?
:shrug:
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:54 PM
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3. fictional?
lol. sorry...

PaleoCons? ClassiCons? Marks? Suckers?

Most I know call themselves Libertarians, although few live up to that name.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:55 PM
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4. con-jobs or 'the mark' nt
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Jawja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:58 PM
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6. Traditional Conservatives?
:shrug:
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:59 PM
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7. Goldwater republican or Rockefeller republican
The first if strong to the right and the second to the left. And then if your Dad has more then a drop of the milk of human kindness he could be a Lincoln republican.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 12:59 PM
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8. You can't have a CONservative without the CON
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:04 PM
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9. paleo-conservative is the proper term
i believe you can look it up on wikipedia
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:05 PM
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10. I call them all Republicans. There is no difference to me
They are all the same.

The pining for "old school Republicans" I constantly see here has got to stop.
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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 01:21 PM
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12. extinct
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