Why can’t conservatives just admit they don’t like Obama because he’s a liberal?

Cult of personality?

I seem to recall the media referred to Reagan as “The Great Communicator” even though he had only a fraction of Obama’s charisma and was reduced to mumbling and near incoherence in situations where he was without a teleprompter.

We live in a celebrity/sports/entertainment culture. It’s a function of that, not some liberal conspiracy, that Obama’s appeal appears to transcend that of his rivals.