# Why SPECIFICALLY do Republicans hate Obama? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 9, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-specifically-do-republicans-hate-obama/553181 "2010-09-09T14:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 114
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-specifically-do-republicans-hate-obama/553181/114 "2010-09-10T21:42:28Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Oh, I see you acknowledged this. Should read a few posts down before responding. That said, who are the GOP leadership now? The budget-balancers or the tax-cutters? Neither, I’d say. As much as people like to complain that the “Democrats appear leaderless”, I don’t see any leaders in the Republican Party, either in the Congress or outside of it. Palin is a vacuum inside a vacuum, and Gingrich hasn’t realized it’s not 1994. Romney is a somewhat shady character to some (I know more than a few Republicans who will stay at home rather than vote for a Mormon), Huckabee is “look at me, I’m Mr. Religion!” and little else, and the list goes on. Dear God, is it going to be Jeb Bush after all? A veritable dynasty of mediocrity? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-specifically-do-republicans-hate-obama/553181)._