How to Know if You Are a Neo Conservative
You may be a redneck if your porch were to collapse and ten hounddogs would get injured, but telling if you are a neo-conservative is much harder to figure out. Some people embrace the name and some deride it. At a town hall meeting held by U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis, (R) S.C., in the fall of 2007, several staunch Republicans hissed when he brought up the neo-con label. So what is a neo-con, and how do you know if you are one?
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Instructions
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Who do you vote for in elections? If you vote mostly Democrat, you can stop reading this. You're not a neo-con. Do you vote mostly Republican? When faced with the choice of two GOPers, do you go to the one with the more stringent foreign policy? Then you might be a neo-con.
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Have you ever owned a poster that says things such as, "Democrats want change; yours and mine!" that features the picture of a donkey shaking money out of people's pockets? You could be a neo-con, but you could also be an ironic twenty-something hipster. The better question is, do you believe the statement? If the answer is "Damn right, it's true. Rush Limbaugh said so," then you might be a neo-con.
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Are you still hoping New Gingrich will run for president? Move to the front of the line.
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After a night of heavy drinking, you stumble into a tattoo parlor and demand you want ink. Do you choose the flaming skull or Ronald Reagan? If you choose Reagan, then you are a neo-con. On the same note, if you feel the majority of public buildings should be renamed after Reagan, you are a neo-con.
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Did you once march in protest on your college campus, but now see any kind of liberal ideas as total folly? You're leaning towards being a neo-con.
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You automatically decried U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's presidential run as being crackpot because he is a Libertarian conservative.
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Tips & Warnings
Being a neo-con doesn't mean you can't have liberal friends. You may both enjoy the same sports team, but still not agree on government.
To hyphen or not to hyphen. There is some debate on the neo-con/neocon realm of how to spell this political school of thought.
