I am not sure that I want to take the Christian Science Monitor's definition of anything but it is hard to see that they offer much of a definition.
It turns out that if you were a liberal Democrat and a Jew and you became a Republican, you got called a neoconservative by your ex-Democrat friends.
And then there is the charge that Reagan was too assertive in bringing down the Soviet Empire. It is hard to believe this stuff seriously. Do you think Carter would have ever brought down the Berlin Wall, Poncho? No, he would have built houses for the poor using the wall as part of the walls of the house for the poor.
And then all that stuff about Israel. You know what, Poncho, I stop worrying about the Jews decades ago when I realized that they survived Hitler who dedicated all of German might and scientific advancement and higher criticism theology to the destruction of the Jews and failed. God will protect Israel. Besides, the first pro-Israel President was President Harry S Truman, who recognized Israel as a nation in 1948 when no one else in the world would. Is Truman a neo-conservative?
And as for the polite applause for the do-nothing Clinton foreign policy, it led to Nine Eleven.
So your definition still comes back to a liberal Jewish Democrat who likes Israel and became a Reagan Republican.
But one thing is clear and that is that Ron Paul does not support the Reagan Republican foreign policy and that his best hope for a primary victory lies in a US military defeat.
Ron Paul does not support the Reagan platform on abortion from 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.
As for the idea that a 1611 King James Only person could be against the death penalty and still be a good Christian I have to wonder how a Fundamentalist like that picked up an idea from Barry Lynn and the religious left. I re-ask my question of should not abortionists be executed for the mass murders of little unborn children, or are we going to apologize to Hitler, who afterall also legalized the murder of the Jews in Germany during the nazi regime. In other words, is an abortionist any better than Hitler, whom we would have executed if he had not committed suicide (also a sin).
The trouble with Ron Paul is that he does not seem to have a Christian perspective, still holds to the program of the Republican Liberty Caucus, rejects Reaganism, and wears ill-fitting clothes. There is no reason whatsoever for any Hoosier Republican to vote for Ron Paul because we have had our belly fully of do-nothing libertarians in this state. Indianapolis is overrun with drugs, male prostitution, and female prostitution. No doubt the Republican Liberty Caucus would merely legalize these crimes and say that they had solved the problem. I have known a lot of libertarians and I have found that they are merely people who don't use toothpaste and soap and water.