During the 2010 midterm election, I was actually surprised how much fire the Left trained on conservative Rand Paul, running for Senate in Kentucky. Paul, after all, beat Mitch McConnell and was shunned by all the PACs and the Chamber of Commerce. Liberals are supposed to like that sort of thing, right?

The knock on Paul from the Left was that he was too extreme and Tea Party-ish. See the image above, taken from a blog post by a Johns Hopkins Professor, for an illustration of this liberal line of attack.