My apologies for my disappearing post on Dan Senor. Everyone hated it so I went in to fix it and hit "unpublish" and it was gone. I figured I would get right back to it but I went out drinking with my friends in Dupont Circle instead and didn't get home til 1 AM.

Here is everything anyone needs to know about Dan.

He was my intern on Capitol Hill in 1990 after I succeeded George Stephanopoulos as Congressman Edward Feighan's chief-of-staff. (Feighan's a great guy but his chief-of-staff trajectory was all downhill after George) Senor was a liberal Jewish kid from Cleveland. Smart, funny and a great magician.

But then his older sister married a rightwing Republican senate aide. And younger brother instantly idolized him (kind of a boring Washington version of the relationships between Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard except without all the "a's").

This is relevant, the Gyllnhaals being Jewish and all!

Anyway, young Dan adopted his brother-in-law's politics, became a Republican aide, and ultimately Paul Bremer's spokesman in Iraq.

By that time, Dan had become a full-fledged neocon Israel-firster. Meanwhile, his sister and bro-in-law immigrated to Israel. She became the head of AIPAC's Jerusalem office. He is a rightwing columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

They all have the same political views. The difference is that the older ones live in Jerusalem and Dan is a flaming neocon here.

Now he says he might run for the US Senate in NY. He won't. He's from Ohio. No one has ever heard of him. And pretty much everyone in New York (especially African-Americans and Jews) hated the Iraq war and despise the neocons who lied us into it. Dan is the leader of the neocons' peanut gallery. The grown-ups are Cheney, Feith, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wurmser, Gaffney, Krauthammer, Kristol, Libby, etc.

I doubt that all of them put together could win a GOP primary in Poughkeepsie.

Also, the New York State Republican Party's chairman -- and kingmaker -- is Ed Cox, Richard Nixon's son-in-law, married to Tricia Nixon. Nixon was a total foreign policy realist and would have hated the neocons. His son-in-law probably does too. Also, Nixon's other daughter, Julie, the one married to President Eisenhower's grandson, David, maxed out to Obama in 2008.

I know the various camps in the Nixon family are not allied these days. But I can't see even the more conservative Cox wing going with a guy who encapsulates the dangerous, misguided and utterly unpatriotic philosophy of neo-conservatism. Say this for Nixon. For all his faults, he ignored ideology and normalized our relations with China.

The neocons are still agitating to unleash Chiang Kai Shek along with Bibi Netanyahu. Not Nixon's types.