There are the actual documents of Vatican II, which are pretty conservative, and the spirit of Vatican II, which is pretty liberal.
I don't think either the left or the right really accepts what Vatican II really meant to the overwhelmingly conservative bishops who were there and voted on its documents.  

I think those bishops wanted a few changes at the edges: Mass in the vernacular over here, more focus on the poor over there, but NOT wholesale change, as some, like myself, wanted.
Remember, the bishops at Vatican II were mainly appointed by Popes Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, and Pius XII.  
None of those men were liberal, or appointed liberals.
I think people are still chasing rainbows that never existed in the first place.
I finally realized that I was one of those rainbow chasers, and that's why I eventually left.