Talk:Neoconservatism and paleoconservatism

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[edit] Propose rename: Conflicts between neoconservatism and paleoconservatism

The current article name has a number of issues:

• The spacing before and after the dash in the name is awkward.
• The capitalization of the term paleoconservatism is incorrect since it isn't the first word in the article title.
• I believe there are multiple conflicts and the title should reflect this.

Also, I would prefer having the term "Conflicts" first in order to not give either of the term political branches significant precedence over the other. Thus I propose the above suggested name change. Thoughts? --70.48.243.22 01:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question?

I gather from this that the views concerning Jewish people or Israel are a major, maybe even the major, difference between the two groups. Is that the right impression of the article? Is that issue really so central? I guess I thought paleocons were just generalized isolationists while neocons were "spread the American ideal abroad" type people.--T. Anthony 04:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems

The article seems to display an unspoken assumption that neoconservatism is the deviation from the paleoconservative line and its almost unilateral use of quote-unquote paloeconservative sources is indicative of this. This is quite egregious and suggests a polemic motivation behind the article's existence which is contrary to the proper functioning of an encyclopedia. TheLateDentarthurdent (talk) 16:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)