The funny part is that those folks comprise a far greater number of GOP voters than the hard right folks ever dreamed of having - and if it weren't for them, the GOP would be a fringe party. Can you explain what the "hard right" is?
I've seen the phrase (or variants thereof) routinely bandied about, but when I look at what McClintock stands for, I don't see anything extreme, i.e., "hard", about his views, just simple conservative values.
I would imagine that to a fiscally conservative socially liberal globalist, almost anything that is truly conservative is viewed as extremism. LOL... ;)