How DOES the GOP do it? (part II)

[Ryantology]

Can someone help me out here?

Does the GOP hate Obama because he's projecting weakness, he won't stand up to anyone, he's wearing "mom jeans" (nice, and the GOP has no idea why people say they're sexist) and dictators know they can take advantage of him?

Or does the GOP hate Obama because he's an iron-fisted tyrant who lawlessly rules by executive fiat and is getting ready to confiscate all our guns and send us all to FEMA camps?

They hate Obama for a lot of reasons. Only one of them really has to do with the man, himself.

1. He's an educated and successful black male. He doesn't fit the white racist stereotype of what a black male is supposed to be. Say what you want about the 'race card'. It's plenty damn true.
2. His election has largely closed the door on the modern Republican party in particular and conservatism in general. They blame Obama for this, but his ascendancy is an effect of the death of American conservatism, in terms of their ability to dictate the political narrative in this country.
3. One primary piece of that narrative was the idea that conservatives were the 'silent' majority. Some poor saps still believe it. Obama being re-elected by a comfortable margin shattered that illusion for everyone with half a brain in their head.
4. He represents the rising Millennial generation (a generation which, in my opinion, doesn't get nearly as much credit as it deserves), and it's a generation which has overwhelmingly rejected all of the things conservative fossils hold so dear. They are increasingly non-religious, mistrustful of patriotism, and much more comfortable with people who are not like they are.

Honestly, it's not really about the politics. Obama is a centrist who has been, on occasion, dragged kicking and screaming into backing progressive goals. He's nowhere near the liberal he should be, and not within shouting distance of being the marxist socialist communist fascist conservatives love to think he is. He has, in fact, backed a lot of the corporatist policies Republicans love.