Accepting Modified Medicaid Expansion /=/ being a moderate.
And being liberal on all your fiscal policies but being "against" gay marriage and barely pro-life (Mark Pryor) doesn't make you conservative. I never once said Pence was moderate, I was making a point of how biased this forum is at analyzing who is mainstream and who is "left-wing/right-wing."
Pryor was also against a federal minimum wage increase, not exactly a liberal stalwart on the environment, voted against Manchin-Toomey, etc. etc.
You picked a really bad example here. If you want a good one, look at Hillary Clinton, who is a standard liberal with a hawkish streak but who everyone acts like is a far right winger that makes Ted Cruz look like a Marxist. Because muh Iraq War vote and she made a speech to some CEOs or something.