Someone on another forum just claimed that McCain's presidential campaign was "liberal"

[Ardent15]

Yes, this was a conservative.

How far right will the Republicans go? They seem to be falling off the edge of the right side of the cliff.

[Ian David]

1. The "No True Scotsman" fallacy. n/t

[timeforpeace]

2. Even if he had guaranteed withdrawal from Afghan and a strong public option, we would still vote for

Obama all over again, so who cares?

[SacredCow]

3. Many of them DID think McCain was too moderate....

From my lurking at FR, I gathered that most of them were for Fred Thompson or Mike Huckabee. Limbaugh and Coulter consistently pegged McCain as being too moderate to please the common conservative.

Post election, yeah- they seem to be convinced that they didn't have a candidate far enough to the right, so that's why they lost. Last time I checked, it's the moderate voters that tend to swing an election one way or the other, so going MORE to the extreme makes absolutely no sense. But that's freeper logic for ya.

[xultar]

4. Well they did make liberal use of the crazy.

[DJ13]

5. We saw this in 2000 when the far right was afraid McCain would beat Bush

Anyone more liberal than Attila the Hun is "liberal" to those whack jobs.

[Ardent15]

6. And now they think Bush was "too liberal"

Ridiculous.

Soon they'll be calling Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and King "RINOs."

[Eric J in MN]

7. McCain campaigned as an environmentalist and a man-of-peace in 2008.

That's how his TV ads portrayed him.

[gratuitous]

8. Whenever a conservative fails, the baby Jesus cries

And when that happens, the Mighty Republican Wurlitzer wheezes into action to deny that the failure was ever a conservative in the first place. Trying to get these jokers to admit the error of their ways is just slightly more difficult than nailing jell-o to a tree.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Soon Sarah Palin will be too liberal

If she's the national candidate in 2012, she'll have to prove her credentials by waterboarding people on the convention stage.

[xultar]

10. What will we become? Satanist?

:rofl: