How do you define a right-wing extremist?
Well I already said that the label and how I define it makes very little difference but:
1. Overzealousness (!!!!)
2. Failure to recognize we're governing on essentially a 51-49% majority in this country.
2b. Despite 2, accepting nothing less than the immediate realization of conservative ideals instead of incremental steps in that direction.
In my view believing in all the traditional conservative values does not make you an extremist. It's really the failure to be pragmatic about it by trying to force public policy decisions that can't pass (yet) and being quite angry at whoever is in charge without offering a congress passable solution.
There's a million miles between what the government should do and what it can do right now. We need to win more elections to make more aggressive changes.