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Condoleezza Rice - Neo-con and socially liberal Christine Lagarde - Neo-con internationalist banker Robert Birgeneau - Lifer academic liberal Conservative...
by carsongross 12y ago
Condoleezza Rice - Neo-con and socially liberal
Christine Lagarde - Neo-con internationalist banker
Robert Birgeneau - Lifer academic liberal
Conservative... I do not think this word means what you think this word means.
- icebraining 12y agoYeah, it seemed weird to me the conflation of conservative and Republican. I mean, how is Timothy Dolan not a conservative?
- asdfologist 12y agoAgreed on Birgeneau, but I don't understand your comment regarding the first two. You realize "neo-con" is short for neo-conservative right?
- carsongross 12y agoGlobalist neo-conservatives are conservative in name only: they are typically socially indifferent, contemptuous of decentralization and tradition, and radically progressivist in international relations. Russell Kirk was a conservative. Condi Rice is not.
- asdfologist 12y agoI'm not sure the author of the article is referring exclusively to social conservatism. There's also fiscal conservatism, which Republicans are associated with.
- deciplex 12y agoYet somehow, they all end up in bed together.