According to someone I correspond with who is an editor at a newspaper, who is a closet conservative, and who interacts with these folks on a daily basis, the modern liberal tries to shoehorn just about every square peg into one of four round holes: the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Watergate, and more recently, Floriduh.
Plus, I see the liberal internet wankers at about the same stage of internet usage that conservatives were at eight years ago - they are consumed by conspiracies whether or not they make sense.
Agreed. Whenever someone asks when the Republicans are going to "get over" Clinton, I say, "As soon as you get over Nixon".
A lot of our conspiracy theories (e.g. Vince Foster) actually DID make sense.