Both candidates - and nearly all American politicians - fall within a narrow band of center-rightists. Nobody in this election is even on the same side of center as socialism is - and raising the socialism alarm is pretty un-informed. Here's a graph from the primary days that explains it well. By the way, Ron Paul is not the most libertarian of the early candidates, either!

The fact that they have to revive Cold War scare tactics to eek out a win shows how desperate they are and how gullible they think the American people are. It may have worked in 04, but people know the truth now and you can't put that genie back in the bottle.