Rogue Columnist dissects it quite neatly. Why this guy doesn’t have a bigger readership is beyond me.

This wing of the GOP, which is about all that’s left of a once-diverse party, argued that Social Security and Medicare were socialism. Its members still believe this, although most keep their opinions under wraps, and long to kill those programs. Yet in power, they don’t hesitate to use the heavy hand of government to redistribute income to the wealthy. Facing a reality-based crisis, the Bush administration partially nationalizes the financial system — and pumps $750 billion of “your money,” largely unsupervised, to the rich bankers who helped cause the meltdown. But that’s not “socialism,” see…see?

How can this name-calling resonate with low-education, “low information” voters who don’t even know what socialism is? And that by voting for the “free market,” as determined by the GOP, they are voting against their own self-interest.