Alex Gourevitch (apparently an American Prospect alum) has a piece at Spiked based on the thesis that “Bush’s controversial Supreme Court appointment reveals that the president was never the neocon his supporters and opponents thought he was.”

I think that is a debatable proposition, to be sure. And I would agree with it to a point, given certain important caveats and qualifiers.

But then in the article he writes:

“When John Ashcroft, the most visible face of domestic neoconservatism resigned as attorney general, Bush replaced him with trusted and nondescript counsel Alberto Gonzalez.”

John Ashcroft was the most visible face of domestic neoconservatism? Really? In what way? According to whom? Has neoconservatism now been further redefined to mean evangelical Christian conservative? I think that might be progress, but I don’t think it is so. I think Gourevitch has bought into the sloppiest definition of neoconservatism around: “conservatives I really don’t like.”

I could go on. But you get the point.