A further entry into the Janis Ian school of persuasion.

Via Instapunditwho has a nice point that the left looks for heretics, while the right looks for converts comes this post from Semi-Daily Journal: More Evidence That Mickey Kaus Has Joined the Neoconservatives who are concerned that Mickey Kause, instead of focusing on the problem of starvation, criticized a not untypically slanted poll used by an advocacy group. Semi-Daily Journal writes:

A relatively normal person would say that the first is a more important world problem. But what gets Mickey Kaus outraged and excited is the second.
Kaus has thus passed through the third of the four stages of becoming a Rhinoceros... excuse me, a neoconservative.
The first stage is to hold that the flaws--the mighty flaws--of the center-left in American politics are important enough to more-or-less balance the flaws of the right. The second stage is to start making desperate and implausible excuses for Republican politicians and functionaries. The third stage is to lose contact with the substance of public policy issues, and focus instead on intellectual and rhetorical "errors" made by those left of center. And the fourth stage is to start acclaiming right-wing political hacks as noble thinkers, and right-wing office holders as bold and far-sighted leaders with a plan to guide us to utopia.
There's still time for Kaus to return to his neoliberal roots. But not much.

Well, there you have it. In the discussion of public policies only one perspective is possible. The fact that these guys have enough experience to describe a standard four-step process by which neoliberals evolve into neoconservatives should make them wonder if they are possible doing something wrong.