By A. Peter Bailey
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - During the second and third debates between President Obama and Gov. Romney, it was very obvious that the governor had been given the green light by his core supporters to say whatever is necessary to rid the White House of the Obamas. Thus Romney was able to basically express agreement with numerous key Obama domestic and foreign policies without causing an explosion from the Tea Party contingent, the White supremacists, the neocons and the big money boys.
What they all have in common is an intense, near fanatical, desire to oust the Obamas from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on November 6, 2012. Their reasons vary. The White supremacists simply can't stand the sight of the Obamas in their White House. To them their presence violates the laws of nature.
This attitude is shared,to a somewhat lesser degree by many of the tea partiers who claim to be only against big government and huge federal debt. This would be credible if they had rallied when President Bush greatly expanded the budget while at the same time keeping the cost of fighting two wars excluded from it. They only hit the streets after the election of President Obama. That is not a coincidence.
I don't believe the more sophisticated neocons - Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, and company - share that hatred of the President. They just consider him a major roadblock to their relentless quest for military adventures in the Middle East. Of course no close family member of an overwhelming majority of the neocon chicken hawks will be putting their lives on the line in combat in any of the military adventures they so screamingly insist are vital to U.S. national security.
Finally there are the big money boys, the same ones who played a major role in the 2008 election of President Obama. According to the October 9, 2012 Wall Street Journal, contributors from the employees of the big banks--J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs--gave $3,470 million to the Obama campaign in 2008. Thus far in 2012, they have contributed $658,000 President Obama and $3,290 million to Gov. Romney.
The big money boys' position is best summed up in an interview I heard with a supporter of Rick Santorum during the 2012 Republican primary campaign. When asked why he supported Santorum over Romney despite their expressing similar positions on most issues, the self-identified conservative said "Romney is an ally of convenience; Santorum is an ally of conviction." For the big money boys President Obama is an ally of convenience; Romney is an ally of conviction.
Gov. Romney's core supporters have allowed him to reduce the election to being a choice between a highly successful White corporate leader and an " incompetent" Black man whom many of his supporters ardently believe had no business being president in the first place. It is now even more apparent that haters such as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Ted Nugent and their millions of viewers, listeners and readers are more reflective of the White American voting public than most so-called progressives/liberals want to admit. Which is why when seeing a recent front page, above-the-fold article in the Washington Post, "Whites' support for Obama eroding," my response was "No Tihs!!" (SIC)