Label or name for non-NeoCon Republicans?

[BluePatriot]

My dad just called over lunch, with a sheepish question. He doesn't really know where to fit in. Rush on the radio, for the first time maybe ever, was pissing him off. He hadn't heard Rush in a few years and was shocked at the change he noticed in the rhetoric. Enough to ask my opinion. :) He has a political identity crisis on his hands so I am going to start filling him in more thoroughly on the neocon agenda. Maybe it will be enough to steer him Independent at least...

So, I ask DUer's: do "traditional" or "old school" Republicans have a label, ala the Neo-Cons? What would you call a traditional, tolerable Republican in today's climate? (besides nearly extinct...ha...)

Thanks GD,

BluePatriot

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1. paleocon n/t

[BluePatriot]

5. That's pretty good.

I like the dinosaur aspect, hehe. Decent way of conveying near extinction.

*chooses Paleo-Con*

*Now I will go to lunch and watch this degenerate into a funny name-the-Pubs thread*

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11. There's even a wikipedia entry.

So if they don't accept the term, tell them to google it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocon

[tk2kewl]

2. Rip Van Republican?

:shrug:

[unpossibles]

3. fictional?

lol. sorry...

PaleoCons? ClassiCons? Marks? Suckers?

Most I know call themselves Libertarians, although few live up to that name.

[sweetheart]

4. con-jobs or 'the mark' nt

[Jawja]

6. Traditional Conservatives?

:shrug:

[TexasProgresive]

7. Goldwater republican or Rockefeller republican

The first if strong to the right and the second to the left. And then if your Dad has more then a drop of the milk of human kindness he could be a Lincoln republican.

[liberal N proud]

8. You can't have a CONservative without the CON

[merwin]

9. paleo-conservative is the proper term

i believe you can look it up on wikipedia

[ComerPerro]

10. I call them all Republicans. There is no difference to me

They are all the same.

The pining for "old school Republicans" I constantly see here has got to stop.

[dkofos]

12. extinct