<html><body> <DIV>Your timing and history are a off.  Neoconservatism emerged well before the late 1970s and well before some of them broke with the Democrats - some, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan never did..  For instance, Perle and others, identified with Democrat Senator Scoop Jackson in the 1970s. Steve</DIV> <DIV>> <BR>> Is Norman Birnbaum a professional idiot? Neo-conservatives are those <BR>> who broke with the Democratic Party in the late 1970s because it was <BR>> insufficiently aggressive in attacking the Soviet Union and defending <BR>> Israel. Larry's no more a neoconservative than Norman Birnbaum is a <BR>> ballerina... <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Brad DeLong <BR>> <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </DIV></body></html>