Why do Liberals Hate the Rich So Much?

Once Romney became the official GOP Presidential candidate, liberals everywhere started looking up dirt to try and smear him with. Remarkably though, up until now, there has really only been one main attacking point: his wealth. The Left is ridculing Romney for coming from a family with a lot of money, and then becoming an extremely succesful business man by buying and seeling companies with Bain. Is this really all they can come up with? His wealth and religion?
 What I find even more humorus is the fact that before becoming President, Obama was a millionaire as well. But since he's a democrat, I guess it's ok for him to make a lot of money being a "community organizer" in Chicago. (Side note: any records of what Obama accomplished while in that position? Anything to prove he earned his pay check and turned the deprived community into a better place? Oh, there isn't?)...Even further hyprocrisy is displayed by the Hollywood liberals: almost every single late night host (Leno, Letterman, and Conan just to name a few) have been making jokes about Romney's wealth as well. Isn't that ironic: multi millionaires attacking a rich person for his wealth. Is there something wrong with being succesful? The hypocrisy is laughable; I don't even see how Romney's money is a valid attacking point in any way...
Well I'll keep my comments to a minimum here, I dont want to belabor the point. However, I will share with you Neal Boortz's opinion on the matter, seeing as he can articulate it better than I ever will be able to:

"The rich basically serve two purposes in this country. First, they provide the investments, the investment capital, and the brains for the formation of new businesses. Businesses that hire people. Businesses that send millions of paychecks home each week to the un-rich.

Second, the rich are a wonderful object of ridicule, distrust, and hatred. Few things are more valuable to a politician than the envy most Americans feel for the evil rich.

Envy is a powerful emotion. Even more powerful than the emotional minefield that surrounded Bill Clinton when he reviewed his last batch of White House interns. Politicians use envy to get votes and power. And they keep that power by promising the envious that the envied will be punished: “The rich will pay their fair share of taxes if I have anything to do with it.” The truth is that the top 10% of income earners in this country pays almost 50% of all income taxes collected. I shudder to think what these job producers would be paying if our tax system were any more “fair.”

You have heard, no doubt, that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Interestingly enough, our government’s own numbers show that many of the poor actually get richer, and that quite a few of the rich actually get poorer. But for the rich who do actually get richer, and the poor who remain poor .. there’s an explanation — a reason. The rich, you see, keep doing the things that make them rich; while the poor keep doing the things that make them poor."