As with conservatives voting for Romney, liberals vote for Obama in the hope that actual liberal administrators are placed in positions of influence and power. Consequently, Obama doesnt need to be liberal, just as Romney doesnt need to be conservative.
For example, Obamas two Supreme Court appointees alone is enough to make most liberals happy, and willing to vote for Obama again.
Well, let's remind the conservatives what we got with FDR....
Justices:
a. Hugo Black was his first, in 1937. This KKK Senator from Alabama wrote the majority decision on Korematsu v. US; in 1967, he said They all look alike to a person not a Jap.
Engage: Conversations in Philosophy: "They all look alike to a person not a Jap"*: The Legacy of Korematsu at OSU While he upheld government power over economic rights, but supported some individual rights, such as free speech.
b. In 1938, he appointed Stanley Forman Reed, who had served in his administration. He deferred to Congress and the executive branch on all matters of economic regulation.
c. Felix Frankfurter, in 1939. This former Harvard Law professor was a champion of the idea of the living Constitution.
d. Also in 1939, the most left-wing justice, was William O. Douglas, who served longer than any justice in history (36 years). He discovered a sweeping right to privacy in the emanations of the penumbras of the Constitution, in Griswold v. Connecticut (contraceptives).
e. In 1940, former governor of Michigan, Frank Murphy
.also a New Dealer who endorsed the expansion of government power over the private economy.
f. In 1941, James F. Byrnes. Later, Byrnes became the segregationist governor of South Carolina.
g. Robert H. Jackson, in 1941, was the 7th, former solicitor general. He wrote the majority decision in Wickard v. Filburn, which denied a private citizen from growing food for his own use on his property.
h. Wiley Rutledge had been a supporter of the court-packing scheme, so was rewarded in 1943. Eight is the most for any President.
From chapter seven, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents," Steven F. Hayward.
And this President believes he is FDR......
(shudder.....)