A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party’s largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted. And the Republican cadres believe this of Obama even more than they believed it of Clinton.
之所以如此，有诸多显而易见的原因。共和党党基——包括很多该党的最大赞助人——中有很大一部分认为，只要是民主党总统，便是美国的非法敌人，因此，只要是民主党内阁提出的方案，便一定是错误的，应该抵制。共和党干部还认为奥巴马比克林顿更符合这一观点。