Much has been said on the left about both the knee-jerk rhetoric and simplistic policy proposals routinely blurted by the Republican presidential hopefuls. In reality, it’s more a reflection of the naïveté and ignorance of the GOP base, with the most successful candidates simply pandering to the narrow-minded worldview of their voters.
There’s no other way to explain the renewed dogwhistle attack against President Obama as an entitled little kid. It’s both a not-so-subtle hint at calling Obama a “boy,” but it also characterizes him as being too waif-like and spindly to handle the rigors of the job.