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Neo-Con became a popular term for the Bush foreign advisors and similar advocates of American ''exceptionalism'' and ''pre-emptive'' military action, many of whom were Jewish and very pro-Israel, and even had some dalliance with idealistic Liberal politics in their youth.
Yes, it does seem more pejorative these days, but it's also as good a term as any to identify the more ''secular'' side of conservative extremism, compared to, say, the ''social conservatives''. Though I think ''Neo-Con' still manages to capture the same sort of almost ''religious'' faith, ideology and dogma that seems to drive them both.
Many social conservatives are "neo-cons" and vice versa.
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