"Liberal" is anything that "Conservatives" don't like, and vice-versa. To each, the other is "The Devil Incarnate". They're just the two sides of the same extremist political cultist coin.
Edit: Yeah, I guess I shoulda expected the downvotes on this one. Too many folks I guess just ain't old enough to remember when both ends of the political spectrum presented themselves as a bit more sane than they do these days.