What the conservative rightwingers don't like about him is that he cares about middle America and those who have less. He already knows that the Americans who are financially well off (the 1%) are FINE. So these rightwingers like to call him a socialist. They also don't like that he doesn't come from your typical WASP background - his father was Kenyan with a different religion. Some STILL persist in calling him a Muslim and saying that he aligns himself with terrrorists, when he has given the order to take out SO MANY of these terrorists. It's absolutely disgusting to me that they say this stuff. They don't care what the truth is. They persist because they WANT it to be true.
Most of the FB posts you see that spew this hatred don't look for real facts, Viola. These folks grab on to sound bites and hateful rhetoric. They take stuff out of context. They subscribe our economic woes to one person, President Obama, when he inherited this mess of an economy that will take a LONG time to fix. The entire economic model was absolutely gutted and it will take a very long time for people to get back to the level that they were at, if EVER. And that's NOT President Obama's fault. They even blame him for doing what President Bush did, blasting him for using a stimulus package, act like TARP money dropped into a big hole, when it was a LOAN that banks had to pay a form of interest to the government on (preferred stock). Even the AIG bailout may end up making money for the taxpayers in the end - we'll see how it shakes out.
I really think that most of these people are just ignorant, either because they won't take the time and effort to really study what's true (like saying high gas prices are our president's fault), or it's all just a ploy to beat other people over the head (like calling us The United Socialist States of America.)
As far as the struggling middle class is concerned, they got decimated under President Bush's watch because the banks were allowed to gamble with billions of dollars of OUR money, and they lost. We nearly went into another Great Depression over it. It's even more precarious now than it was in the 1930's because the banking world is totally global now. We need teeth in our regulations to prevent the banks from doing it again. Romney doesn't believe in these regulations. President Obama does. Romney says that being a business man would make a good president. However, a business man who buys companies and guts them, laying off thousands of workers, isn't what makes a good president and isn't what helps the middle class. All it does is make the very wealthy even more wealthy. These same people who think somehow that this is okay, try to tell us that these wealthy people create jobs with all this money, but Viola, they really don't. They put that money in hedge funds, a lot of them overseas, and the hedge funds gamble on American companies. It is astonishing how they will short sell stock and drive the stock prices lower and lower, sometimes with the intent of putting a company out of business, just to make a lot of money. HOW on earth is that good for the company and the employees?
The middle class doesn't need this. You know what? The wealthy don't need it either. They already have plenty of money. Romney doesn't want to tax them. He would rather the burden of the deficit be placed on those without a lot of money.
These people who bark and bark like rabid dogs about doomsday in re-electing President Obama should be focusing more on the House of Representatives who have stopped at nothing to thwart ANY progress in getting work done. They should be screaming at THEM to put aside their own chance of re-election and do the job they were hired to do - help the American people. That means middle class America - not just wealthy America.
Dawn