I'm not a Republican, but I'll vote for Bush because of my neoconservative position in foreign affairs.
It was the Democrats who were the first "neoconservatives" - certainly Truman and Kennedy were strongly interventionist abroad, while progressive with regard to individual and minority rights at home. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington carried this philosophy into the 70's - Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were associated with his Presidential campaign before jumping parties to join Ronald Reagan (another original neoconservative Democrat).
Today, conservative Democrats (neo or otherwise) have been pushed to the fringes of the party, even though the only successful Democratic presidential campaigns since the post-Vietnam re-definition of "conservative" and "liberal" have come from the "conservative" wing of the party.
Here here Mort!
Weren't the original Neo-Conservatives in fact a group of Jewish Senators (I think it was Senators) who were very hawkish and very progressive socially. They eventually split from the Democrats. I think at least they were the first to call themselves Neo-Conservatives.
