I'm not much of a political junkie...but, I listened to something that I found interesting today. On Warren Olney's To the Point they talked about Donald Rumsfeld and William Kristol came on and criticized the performance of the Secretary of Defense. After him Midge Decter of The Heritage Foundation called in, and after the standard "I'm a big of fan of Bill Kristol" caveat, proceeded to accuse him of being a chickenhawk! She said, "Bill Kristol hasn't been within 500 miles of a battlefield....", after which she defended Donald Rumsfeld's performance. Kristol had earlier alluded to sharp disagreemants between neocons on whether to stand behind president Bush's support for Rumsfeld (particularly in the context of Iraq troop levels), and Decter came out confirmed this split with her rather straightforward use of an anti-neocon insult.

I don't follow much politics in detail, but I do know that Midge Decter & Norman Podhoretz are usually assumed to the standard bearers of the older generation of neoconservatives, along with William Kristol's parents, Iriving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb. Decter and Podhoretz's son, John Podhoretz helped found The Weekly Standard with Bill Kristol, so it's all quite incestuous.

Anyway, the only reason I note this is that I was shocked that a mother of the neconservative movement would use a slur generally hurled by the Left and paleos against neocons against one of the next generation when they didn't toe the party line....

Listen to the segment here.