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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (102764)2/2/2009 10:17:47 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542141
 
It seems to often mean "someone who supported intervention in Iraq, who I don't like".

Well, at least that usage refers to an actual characteristic of neocons. As you know, I opposed the intervention from the time it was a gleam in the president's eye. What earned me the epithet was pointing out the orders of magnitude differentiating the current unemployment rate from that of the Great Depression. It was a technical point, not an ideological one let alone an ideological point of the neocon persuasion.

While it's true that not all who favored the Iraq intervention are neocons, my sense of accurate labeling would not be offended by loosely applying that label to all of them given that the neocons were the impetus behind it.

But sometimes it has even less precision that that, something like, "someone who I don't like who supports Republicans and/or is against Democrats on issue X"

That, OTOH, is way too sloppy. But, as you say, you see it all the time.
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