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Blogs Liberty and Power The Neocons Favorite "Maverick"

Nov 17, 2009

The Neocons Favorite "Maverick"

by Liberty and Power

Sarah Palin once said a kind word or two about Ron Paul but that was then. The self-described maverick can now claim enthusiastic support from the reiging heads of the two main ancestral branches of neoconservativism. Now joining William Kristol (son of Irving) in the Palin brigade is his ideological first cousin, John Podhoritz (son of Norman).