Here is the report from Friends of Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research that attempted to determine why the GOP base hates Obama.

The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican Party stand a world apart from the rest of America, according to focus groups conducted by DemocracyCorps. These base Republican voters dislike Barack Obama to be sure – which is not very surprising as base Democrats had few positive things to say about George Bush – but these voters identify themselves as part of a ‘mocked’ minority with a set of shared beliefs and knowledge,and commitment to oppose Obama that sets them apart from the majority in the country. They believe Obama is ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt the United States and dramatically expand government control to an extent nothing short of socialism. While these voters are disdainful of a Republican Party they view to have failed in its mission, they overwhelmingly view a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of this country’s founding principles and are committed to seeing the president fail.

"Committed to seeing the President fail", I am sorry but that statement alone sets these "teabaggers" apart from any Democratic frustration at George W. Bush of which I am aware. We well knew that when the President fails, the country fails.

First and foremost, these conservative Republican voters believe Obama is deliberately and ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt our country and dramatically expand government control over all aspects of our daily lives. They view this effort in sweeping terms, and cast a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of the United States as it was conceived by our founders and developed over the past 200 years.

In other words he is not going to stick to our revered history of oppressing the minorities and furthering the interests of big business (ie WHITE business), as was done by almost every President before him.

This concern combines with a profound sense of collective identity. In our conversations, it was striking how these voters constantly characterized themselves as part of a group of individuals who share a set of beliefs, a unique knowledge, and a commitment of opposition to Obama that sets them apart from the majority of the country. They readily identify themselves as a minority in this country – a minority whose values are mocked and attacked by a liberal media and class of elites. They also believe they possess a level of knowledge and understanding when it comes to politics and current events, one gained from a rejection of the mainstream media and an embrace of conservative media and pundits such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, which sets them apart even more. Further, they believe this position leaves them with a responsibility to spread the word, to educate those who do not share their insights, and to take back the country that they love. (Did you catch the evangelical slant in their way of thinking?)Their faith in this country and its ideals leave them confident that their numbers will grow, and that they will ultimately defeat Barack Obama and the shadowy forces driving his hidden agenda.

This last paragraph is very important. It illustrates the kind of mindset that one might find in the citizens of a country which is being occupied by hostile forces, such as France during World War 2. In those circumstances a kind of fervent nationalism bonds the countrymen together and they become desperate to expunge the invaders from their country.

But in this instance these people are responding, not to an invader, but a duly elected President who they fundamentally disagree with. How did THAT evolve into the kind of persecuted desperation that we see today? The answer of course is simple.

Fox News.

The cable news channel has done everything in its power to make its viewers feel marginalized and oppressed. Have you noticed how many of their programs and books have the word "America" in their titles? The Fox program "Sean Hannity's America". Glenn Beck's book "The Real America: Messages From The Heart and Heartland". Bill O'Reilly's transparent attempt to rape our children's minds with his book " Kids Are Americans Too". (Of course they are, who in the hell would suggest otherwise?)

And in the background there is always a flag waving and the implied message that THIS is the REAL America. And that every other news outlet is against THEIR America.

The result of that intense indoctrination is reflected in this next portion of the report.

Their feelings toward Obama are not simply a reflection of intense partisan differences. They are actively rooting for Obama to fail as president because they believe he is not acting in good faith as the leader of our country. Only 6 percent of these conservative Republican base voters say that Obama is on their side, and our groups showed that they explicitly believe he is purposely and ruthlessly executing a hidden agenda to weaken and ultimately destroy the foundations of our country.

These conservative Republican base voters were not just shooting off half-cocked theories about conspiracies. They actively believe President Obama is purposely lying about his plans for the country and what his policies would do, and that he is exaggerating the threats America faces in order to create support for his policies. A key component to this deception is a pattern of always telling people what they want to hear, regardless of the truth.

The part that really struck me about these two paragraphs is that they almost perfectly reflect the kind of paranoia that I felt about George W. Bush during his second term.

I also felt that there was a hidden agenda and that his stated reasons for doing things were not truthful. Of course in that case we had the evidence behind the Valerie Plame case, the Downing Street Memo's, the lack of WMD's in Iraq, and the fact that the administration engaged in Domestic Spying. It is almost like the teabaggers have taken our very legitimate fears of an out of control administration circa 2001 to 2008, and applied them, without alteration, to the brand new Obama administration.

That is OUR fear and outrage. NOTHING President Obama has done comes anywhere close to the kinds of criminal and treasonous behavior we saw in President Bush and his administration, and yet these people are angered enough to take to the streets repeatedly in protest. WTF?

Just listen to THIS description of President Obama.

Conservative Republicans do not oppose Obama’s policies simply because they think they are misguided or out of partisan fervor. Rather, they believe his policies are purposely designed to fail. When they look at the totality of his agenda, they see a deliberate effort to drive our country so deep into debt, to make the majority of Americans so dependent on the government, and to strip away so many basic constitutional rights that we are too weak to fight back and have to accept whatever solution he proposes. The numbers from our database also demonstrate this belief – 92 percent of these voters believe Obama is a “big spender” and only 17 percent believe he has good plans for the economy.

WHO are they describing again? It is almost like they saw all of this happening for the last eight years but could not bring themselves to blame it on THEIR guy. So they held their tongues for all of that time waiting for a Democrat to take office so that they could finally exhale and start bitching about the state of their country. The fact that it was a black guy is just frosting on their hypocritical hate-filled cupcake.

I disagree with the fundamental findings of this study which goes out of it's way to say that this fear and suspicion is not racially motivated. Wrong!

Just because these yahoo's do not want to go on record as being racists, certainly does not mean that it is not the driving force behind their anger. In their eyes they went from running the country, to being left out of the running of the country. From being in power, to being out of power. To being the majority, to becoming the NEW minority.

Yes, they see themselves as the minority. The oppressed. The downtrodden. And WHO suddenly made the white men, the founder's of this country, the master's of this nation, into second class citizens? A black man!

And you believe that racism is not the fuel that lights a fire under these whackjobs? Then you my friends are fooling yourselves.

I understand that the people behind this study do NOT want to identify the Republican base as racists. That may put an end to the ability to engage with this group of citizens in the future. Name calling can definitely be a conversation killer.

But here is the thing. Crazy people are also very offended if you refer to them as crazy. However just because you do not label them crazy, it does not make them any more sane. And not calling racists, "racist", will also not make them suddenly want to celebrate Kwanzaa and buy a bunch of Kanye West records. And if the Democrats believe that not referring to these hoodless KKK members as racist will make one bit of difference to them, then perhaps it is the Democratic party who is really crazy.

(Click the title to read the entire report.)