Will neocons ditch the GOP for Hillary Clinton?

Spoiler: Don't count on it

Hillary Clinton
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Writing in The New York Times this weekend, Jacob Heilbrunn thinks that neoconservative writers and policy analysts may be preparing to break from the Republican Party and align themselves "with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her nascent presidential campaign, in a bid to return to the driver's seat of American foreign policy."

The suggestion isn't crazy. Clinton's instincts appear to be far more hawkish than Barack Obama's. As secretary of State, she pushed the president to intervene in Libya — and tried, and failed, to get him to provide military support to the rebels seeking to overthrow Syria's Bassar al-Assad. More recently she seemed to favor a tougher response to Vladimir Putin's mischief-making in eastern Ukraine than Obama himself.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.