Sure they do. They'd just love to pit the Boy Scout in a Mr Rogers sweater against Hussein the Magnificent.
He's got structural weaknesses that Obama will draw blood from, and the NY Times knows that (even if some conservatives don't).
Not to mention the fact that he will scare away the social liberals (of both parties) in droves. And many on FR will cheer him for it, because doing so allegedly “returns Biblical values to the White House.”