The word “neocon,” or “neoconservative,” has been around since the mid 1940’s. The funny thing is it was supposed to denote the “new thinking” of conservatives even then.
Its expansive epithetical use of late led me to google it, and I learned a few forgettable facts like, oh, it was given new wind around 1960 or ‘62 and that wind came from liberals and democrats, oddly enough.
Oooh, yawwn!.
Wikipedia or whatever it was I used said this:
ne-o-con
n. Informal
A neoconservative: “The neocons and hard-liners have long felt that no Soviet leader could be trusted” (New York Times).
Guy, put me to sleeeep.
Anyway, it started me thinking about who was calling the kettle black, which led to some mindplay that birthed my new term. Frankly, I love it. At first I started thinking about neo-catheters, but it just didn’t have that certain penache to it.
No! Ummm? Yes! Yes! “Neo-Sphincters!” It works, it works, it works! We are, after all, attacked by and doing battle with an entirely new breed of butthole in the 110th Congress, and the battle is real and to the death! How perfect!
So, how ’bout this:
ne-o-sphin(k)-ter
n. Informal.
A neosphincter: “The neosphincters and similar buttholes have long felt that true Americans who understand and revere Constitutional provisions could not be trusted” (New York Times) (A Rational Aversion—you heard it here first).
OK. We need some context here, I know. New conceptual lingo often needs color, some skin, if you will, to make it easier to assimilate said lingo into one’s personal vocabulary. Targeted as this term is, well, my goodness, it will be that much simpler to use in casual conversation.
For example, there was a wonderful commentary [here] on WorldNetDaily this morning (3/6/07) by Janet P. Folger. She writes about the crappy choices we’re likely to have for candidates in 2008, and she also writes about several who are excellent but who don’t really stand a snowball’s chance. As an aside, so does the Constitution Party [here].
But then, neither did Reagan at first.
In her column she does real justice to John McCain, and it is with this portion of the link above that I will introduce my new word
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“…for those who slept through neosphincter McCain’s ‘Campaign Finance Reform,’ let me summarize: It rips up what used to be our Constitutional freedom of speech for ‘30 days before a primary’ and ‘60 days before a general election.’ You know, when we most need to expose candidates’ positions on things like … how they voted. So whether you have free speech now depends upon what state you’re in and what day it is.
“Then ask Wisconsin Right to Life what they think about John McCain. He just sued them for having the audacity to ask people to lobby Congress on giving judicial candidates an up or down vote. John doesn’t want to let people participate in our representative form of government during his federally mandated gag rule. By the way, where was neosphincter John McCain on that issue? Oh yeah, he led the “gang of 14″ who stood in the way of breaking the judicial filibuster
.”See? Just like the New York Times, but with a nice touch of truth.
I’m liking it.
