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Romney runs from ‘neocon’ label– because Americans reject neoconservatism by more than 2 to 1!

The Washington Post reports that Romney doesn’t want to be called a neocon, even though he’s mobbed up with neocons:

The Romney campaign does not dispute that Mitt Romney is a neoconservative, it just refuses to say the word neoconservative.

“His embrace of American values and interests and his call for American leadership abroad throughout this campaign is indicative of a philosophy of peace through strength,” Alex Wong, the campaign’s foreign policy director, said in an interview.

Pretty telling, huh. David Remnick’s salvo against neocons and their “gambits” seems to reflect US opinion. Americans dislike neoconservatism.

The proof is in this poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. By more than two to one, 67-32, Americans now believe the Iraq war was not worth it. Numbers that have increased dramatically in recent years. Hi-ho Bill Kristol! 

The Council asked about the entire neocon program: Will the war spread democracy in the Arab world? 68 to 28 No. Should we undertake unilateral military action against rogue states, 71 to 27 against. Has the Iraq war made us safer from terrorists? 69 to 20 against!

And most important, has the war worsened our relations with the Arab world? 70 to 27, Yes!

Ali Gharib has reported on the same poll’s overwhelming opposition to a strike on Iran. Wait till this comes up in the debates, and Romney starts tap-dancing.

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the neocons have never cared about the people, or what they think, so these poll numbers are not unknown to them but they don’t care … their rabid ideology is all about ramming through their policy objectives and war goals, period … and it is, first and foremost, in service to a ‘greater israel’ – making israel the regional superpower over there through the blood and treasure of America

… fortunately Mitt Romney is such an utter incompetent that has chances of getting elected president are probably between 10%-20% so it is very unlikely that America will have to withstand another traitorous round of war against our own country through destructive policies promulgated by the neocons

Romney is the ultimate bellweather because he has no core. He will align with the group that currently has the most power.

The neocons run the show inside the Republican party after Kristol led the Stalinist purge of all independent thinkers right around the fall of the Soviet Union.

However, the vehicle that is the Republican party is not reliable anymore. The young Republican voters like Ron Paul much more than they do Bill Kristol.
This reflects the fact that the neocons have never had a base inside the party, but have always been an élite phenomenom. Buy up all the conservative press, organize a group of donors(mostly from Wall St like Dan Loeb, Julian Singer, Michael Steinhardt etc) and make sure all the Republican pols have to pander to you.

A recent report came out, supported by the old, now ousted, ‘Arabist'(as Kristol called them) Republican establishment. It said that if the U.S. truly wanted to get rid of Iran’s nuclear weapons it would have to not only bomb but to invade(!) Iran and that would take more treasury, manpower and blood than the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan combined!

No wonder that the U.S. military and intelligence establishment is against.
And the American people seem to get it too, by instinct.
No wonder Obama is standing up to Bibi and AIPAC.

He knows he got the American military and defence establishment on his side as well as the people too.
So much for the industrial-military complex!

The people who have been dragging their feet has been the media.
And this should be empathized a lot, because the media is, generally speaking, more liberal than the rest of the population on most issues.

Yet on neoconservatism and deregulation/neoliberalism, it is far away from the middle of the country.

It’s the media that is reactionary on these issues and have been pushing for the neocon line, or at the very least given far more time for their arguments than the support for their ideas among the American people merits.

The media is supposed to ask the hard questions on this issue.
It’s supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

But it doesn’t, not on why neoconservtism, even with it’s downfall(in relative terms) is still being treated with such reverance/respect.

And why is that?
This site tries to answer those questions but nobody else tries and they should.

The neocons wrecked the Bush/Cheney administration and they are wrecking the Mitt Romney candidacy (Dan Senor is one of the lead culprits).

So why does Romney continue to associate with them? Do they have a gun pointed at his head? Blackmail? Adelson money? What?

Is Romney a natural born fanatic who shares their dramatically discredited views? Is there something in the ideology of Mormonism which entangles it with neoconservatism, Likud Zionism and Christian Zionism?

Aside: Mitt Romney is one of the most tone deaf and off-kilter major politicians to come along in a long time. And he looks so “reasonable” at first glance — his appearance and demeanor are highly misleading. Once he starts talking the inner craziness shines through.

John Kerry at the DNC last month in his opening speech said that Romney’s crew is full of Neocons. It was surprising, because you don’t often hear the word neocon touted in a public arena.

You guys are funny. Barack Obama sent 35,00 more troops to Afghanistan! He started bombing and killing in up to 35 new countries, Yes! He broke the law to attack Libya, unilaterally. Hi-ho! Opinions of the US in the Arab world worsened under Obama, imagine that! Yeah, fellas, Iraq wasn’t worth it – but don’t tell that to Obama, he was desperately trying to keep troops in Iraq, but al-Maliki gave him the Heave-Ho! He gets together with his buddies on Terror Tuesday and decides what wedding to bomb! You guys fail to acknowledge the obvious: the neo-cons won. they’ve dominated a decade plus of american policy, democrat and republican.

The sick part of all this: Romney could be wiping the floor with Obama if he ran to the left of him on foreign policy. You can’t out right wing Barack Obama. You also apparently convince some people of the hard truths about O. This is the guy who told his aides he was gonna use his nobel acceptance speech to make the case for war. Beat that. The right wingers are always talking about the coming liberal dictatorship etc., and here is barack obama, assassinating citizens! – the fact that Romney can’t bring this up says all you need to know. Everybody’s on the same page.

By the time Barack Obama decides to attack Iran, Phil, you will think its the right decision. You will have mountains of evidence claiming O didn’t want war, leaks, articles, insider accounts and so on; other events will take place (maybe like what we’re seeing now in yemen, egypt and libya), IAEA reports will come out saying Iran is increasingly opaque (see their boards latest), some iron clad intel will leak, maybe bread riots and street protests start in Iran, maybe they get violently broken up, maybe the street protests turn into slaughters…… someone’s gotta do something! right?