Zen I could ask you the same question, John McCain was a Senator for over 20 years, and thing there has qualified him for the Office of president.
No one is qualified or experianced in Politics on the presidential level until they are in office. The Military doesn't nessicarraly qualify you to be president. Funny how you start on Foreign Policy.... Remember Sarah Palin with her speed dating crash course in Foreign
You Proved nothing to anyone else but yourself Zen, If you must Know how I voted, Yes I did Vote Democrat for the Presidential election (Because McCain and Palin are both NeoConservatives), But I voted Libertarian in all the Other elections in the Congressional and Senatorial and State Elections.
You know nothing about me, Zen. You Think you do, but in reality you don't.
You on the other hand with your writing have proven yourself a Neo-conservative.
NEO-CONSERVATIVE
Beliefs:
This political group supported a militant anti communism, minimal social welfare (to the consternation of extreme free-market libertarians), and sympathy with a traditionalist agenda (is more inclined than other conservatives toward vigorous government in the service of the goals of traditional morality and pro-business policies). They feuded with traditional right-wing Republicans, such as William F. Buckley and the Nativity, protectionist, isolationists once represented by ex-Republican Pat Buchanan, who is the editor of the paleoconservative magazine The American Conservative.
But domestic policy does not define Neo conservatism; it is a movement founded on, and perpetuated by a hawkish foreign policy, opposition to communism during the Cold War, free trade, and opposition to Middle Eastern states that pursue terrorism. Thus, their foremost target was the old Richard Nixon approach to foreign policy, peace through negotiations, diplomacy, and arms control known, détente and containment (rather than rollback) of the Soviet Union, and the beginning of the process that would lead to bilateral ties between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the U.S. Today a rift still divides the neo conservative hawks from many members of the State Department, who favor established foreign policy conventions.
Origins:
Neo conservatives are conservatives who are "new" (neo) to the conservative movement in some way. Usually, this comes as a result from the migration from the left of the political spectrum to the right, over the course of many years. Though every such neo conservative has an individual story to tell, there are several key events in recent American history that are often said to have prompted the shift.
Many of today's most famous Neo cons are from Eastern European Jewish immigrant families, who were frequently on the edge of poverty. The Great Depression radicalized many immigrants, and introduced them to the new and revolutionary ideas of socialism and communism.
The Soviet Union's break with Stalinism in the 1950's led to the rise of the so-called New Left in America, which popularized anti-Sovietism along with anti-capitalism. The New Left became very popular among the children of hardline Communist families.
Intellectually, Neo conservatives have been strongly influenced by a diverse range of thinkers from Max Shachtman's version of Trotskyism (in the area of anti-Sovietism and international policy) to the elitist, neo-Platonic ideas of Leo Strauss.
Many critics charged that the Neo conservatives lost their raison d'étre following the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the 1990s, Neo conservatives were once again in the opposition side of the foreign policy establishment, railing against the post-Cold War foreign policy of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, which reduced military expenditures and was, in their view, insufficiently idealistic.
Neo conservatives perhaps are closer to the mainstream of the Republican Party today since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon than any competing faction, especially considering the nature of the Bush Doctrine and the preemptive war against Iraq. Nevertheless, many of the prominent people labeled as Neo conservatives are actually registered Democrats.
The Above sums you up rather well Zen.
Let's Face it, the Campaign that McCain ran was Pure Neoconservatism.
Also this may be even more to describe you:
Traditional conservatives believe in smaller government, lower taxes, free markets, and a strict constructionist interpretation of the Constitution.
Neoconservatives pair these traditional conservative values with Christian social values, for example, opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Neocons also break from their traditional brethren on international issues, favoring preemptive action over nonintervention.
Through the years, Neo-conservatism has actually been variously identified with both left- and right-wing movements, but the hallmark of neo-conservatism has been an aggessive, proactive foreign policy aimed at worldwide democratization.
It arose in America as a left-wing response to Stalinism and advocated a hard-line approach to counter Soviet influence. Neo-conservatives stopped identifying with the Left during the Vietnam era, because the Left took an anti-war stance distasteful to the Neo-cons.
Today, Neo-cons clothe themselves in the ideological trappings of the political Right, because the Right is more supportive of their militant foreign policy stance. The Bush Doctrine, the position that the US is justified in taking pre-emptive military action to avert any potential threats, epitomizes the Neo-con philosophy.
Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and New Left counterculture of the 1960s. In the United States, neoconservatives align themselves with mainstream conservative values, such as the free market, limited welfare, and traditional cultural values. Their key distinction is in international affairs, where they prefer an interventionist approach that seeks to defend national interests.
The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right". Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy. According to E. J. Dionne, the nascent neoconservatives were driven by "the notion that liberalism" had failed and "no longer knew what it was talking about."
The first major neoconservative to embrace the term and considered its founder is Irving Kristol, father of William Kristol, who would become the founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, and wrote of his neoconservative views in the 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed 'Neoconservative.'" Kristol's ideas had been influential since the 1950s, when he co-founded and edited Encounter magazine. Another source was Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995. By 1982 Podhoretz was calling himself a neoconservative, in a New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neoconservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy". The Reagan Doctrine was considered anti-Communist and in opposition to Soviet Union global influence and considered central to American foreign policy until the end of the Cold War, shortly before Bill Clinton became president of the United States. Neoconservative influence on American foreign policy later became central with the Bush Doctrine.
Prominent neoconservative periodicals are Commentary and The Weekly Standard. Neoconservatives are associated with foreign policy initiatives of think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), The Heritage Foundation, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).