Only because the fact that he WAS an uber-liberal was covered up my the mass media and only the minority of us who really CARE about something other than PERSONALITY were aware of it!
True, but the uber-liberal also had to overwhelm/convert enough of the Clinton supporters to get in. It worked.
Sure, that was covered up in the uber-liberal MSM, who presented his stance as "mainstream", but those are the same talking heads who present anyone to the Right of Hillary as "extremists".
The middle was mesmerized and caught up in the pep-rally fervor over the 'one', liberal white guilt, and "change".
Even before the election, I was asking people what it was that they wanted so desperately to "change" and often the reply was an epithet, not an answer.
We will never know the extent of voter fraud, but we know they were trying.
In contrast, there was little apparent contrast except Sarah Palin, whom the MSM went to great lengths to attack and degrade (Palin's daughter's boyfriend's mother's sister's cousin busted for ....Story at 7!). Otherwise, McCain's wishywashiness on all but Amnesty for Illegals failed to ignite the popular support someone more Conservative might have.
Regardless of candidate, the MSM will smear them hard and often if they are Conservative, and the work needs to begin at the grass roots level ASAP for a Conservative on the 2012 ticket.
It is the emotionally charged issues which will ignite ferverent support, all the hot-button issues. A "moderate" will only be a guarantee of another Obama term.