Libercon

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:59 AM -0400 8/31/04, Terry Lynn Irons wrote:
>Our dear friend Bill Safire has outted himself in his most recent column:
>
>"I'm more of a new libercon than an old neocon, but such a determined mind-set
>on our time's paramount issue--of global safety in freedom--attracts me to the
>crowd in New Yori that points with pride at what we're doing rather than the
>bunch in Boston that viewed with alarm all we've done."
>
>Other than a few references to Canadian politics and a ranting blogger, I have
>been unable to find an origin.  And what exactly is a "libercon"?  A reformed
>liberal?

a libertarian conservative--definitely not liberal; differs from both
neoconservative (the guys running the ship in the Bush White House,
other than Powell) and paleoconservative (the inevitable retronym for
what used to be called "conservative")

Larry