Why did GOP waste so much time on Benghazi thse past weeks?

[grasswire]

Did they ever really think that anyone was going to vote on the Benghazi issue?

It was a mania with them.

[Beowulf]

1. I think they are laying the groundwork for impeachment.

[lapfog_1]

10. +999

yuppers, just like Bill, when Barack Obama won a second term they are going to go all out to discredit him. Hearings will continue in the House followed by Articles of Impeachment.

[libertypirate]

28. Sorry can't buy that these right wing opportunist

do anything but pounce on the moment. They react to everything in a predetermined exercise, they don't plan long term, they follow scripts. Unfortunately, they have had access to ALL the possible scripts planned by every corner of our government and copies of moments in history.

They don't need ground work. They can literally make shit up on the fly, hand it out to fox, and get it spread as truth throughout the god fearing fox universe. Case in point their "Voter Fraud" laughable crusade.

They are not going to impeach Obama unless they can make it so no one will defend him, then they act tough.

[Tumbulu]

2. No, they are trashing Hilary already in anticipation

of 2016. But team Hilary & Michelle will knock them all out of the ballpark.

[oldhippydude]

3. they had a toxic platform... they could not run on facts

Fokkks couldn't come up with anything else, once fast and furious died

[PD Turk]

4. It's all they had left

They had been blown out of the water in the 2nd and 3rd debates, they thought they found a nit to pick. they were wrong.

[robinlynne]

5. trying to keep the spotlight off of Romney's taxes, 47%, etc.

[grasswire]

9. I guess they were trying to distract the press.

That makes some sense.

[pointsoflight]

6. All about trying to find an issue that might play to people's emotions and rile them up.

Deeply cynical.

[gkhouston]

7. It was a lame attempt to counteract "Bin Laden is dead". n/t

[Initech]

8. Because it's bullshit. And that's what they thrive on.

[Historic NY]

11. smoke screen and some media played along

[exboyfil]

12. They are still pounding it

I don't think they will be foolish enough to try impeachment. Clinton's failed impeachment was golden for him, and Obama was not caught lying in a deposition.

[workinclasszero]

13. They were going for Swiftboat 2

Nobody was buying it outside of Faux "news" and hate radio.

Why didn't conservatives call for RAY-guns head when this happened:



1983 Beirut barracks bombing

The Beirut Barracks Bombing (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

[cemaphonic]

14. I was checking up on FR a couple times last night for laughs...

Those loons think that Romney lost because he didn't push Benghazi enough.

[CoffeeCat]

15. I truly believe that Benghazi...

...and the manufactured hysteria surrounding it--were Republican campaign tools--designed to destroy Obama during the campaign.

They could not get Obama on any scandals. His foreign policy credibility was solid when he ordered the bin Laden hit, when he ended Iraq and kept us safe.

There were 50 Americans killed overseas in our embassies and consulates-- during the Bush Administration. The world, especially the Middle East, is a violent and risky place for American diplomats and government workers. Democrats didn't pull a big PR stunt and blame Reps for the countless deaths of Americans on foreign soil. The Republicans started a witch hunt to hurt Obama's re-election.

They are vindictive, dirty players. I doubt we will hear much about Benghazi, as its purpose clearly failed and their faux outrage is manufactured garbage.

Benghazi should have been handled as the dozens of tragic murderers of Americans on foreign soil-- were handled in the past. By understanding that these tragedies happen and then moving on. Deaths like these are the fault or no one.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. You know this topic will

only get the Repuks asses burnt by the C.I.A.,you piss on these people once to many times and there will be day of reckoning. Issas little stunt is going to come back to haunt them. There is lots of anger yet after Plame. Certain idiots best watch over their shoulders me thinks.

[Johonny]

17. because it fit the GOP narrative

it was a negative foreign event that happened while Obama was in office. Their narrative was he wasn't fit to lead and had nothing but a record of failure. The problem is 1) auto industry is still here 2) banks are not great, but alright 3)energy industry is making money 4) wall street is up big 5)he has positive job creation 6)unemployment is down 7) Libya revolution and Egypt Revolution turned out not total Iraq war cluster fucks 8) no one cares about Afghanistan 9) no one cares double about Iran.

Obama isn't a huge Bush like failure. Thus a small attack on our embassy was a rallying cry that pointed to something tangible that fit the GOP narrative.

It's like talking about Bush's incredible generous and great presidency and spending 1 month talking about malaria aid to Africa because that's basically all they got.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

18. Heard A RW Nut-Job Call Thom Hartmann Today Screaming

He claimed that Obama would not get anything done in his second term and went on some long, crazy rant why. One of the reasons in the list was that Obama would be fighting Impeachment over Benghazi. These right-wingers have completely lost their shit.

[SoCalDemGrrl]

19. So they can revive it in 2016 to use against Hillary......

Undoubtedly she will run and then they can trot out the Benghazi crap to tar and feather her since she was Secretary of State during the Libya tragedy...

They are shameless....

[Populist_Prole]

20. Warmongers gotta.... uhh....monger

High risk strategy only used in desperation.

Even H W Bush in 1992 declined to use a proposed ad of photos of himself in his USN pilot uniform contrasted with Clinton's Vietnam war protester days on the grounds it looked too desperate.

The modern uber neocon GOP has no such strictures against being impolitic.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I have a right-wing Facebook friend who's still going on about it.

They're just outraged, I'm not sure why. It's not like foreign service workers haven't died during other administrations.

[Polldancer2012]

23. Well if...

And let me underline, italicize and bolden "IF"... If the Repub version of events is found true it's a fuck- up of epic proportions from the White House on down with a couple teaspoons of cover up mixed in. If the CIA and admin version is true it's just a tragedy that the administration reacted correctly to.

[Polldancer2012]

22. On the 15th the admin is required to

Present a report to congress. This document will be examined with a fine tooth perjury comb.
The committee will find the report unconvincing and open a full Congressional hearing in January.

Personal wisecrack: I hear Lindsey Graham is auditioning already claiming prior experience.

[DevonRex]

24. Because they paid for it to happen to begin with.

That's what Adelson paid for. It was never al Qaeda to begin with. They are the ones who knew it was going to happen.

[allrevvedup]

27. Very likely.

Payback for four years of saying no to an Iran attack, delivered on 9/11 and designed to sink his reelection. And if anything could have, that was it: before Benghazi there wasn't a cloud in the sky and BO was headed for a landslide victory.

[dem4ward]

25. Lost sheep had no other direction to go.

[libertypirate]

26. Change the subject back to Obama,

Benghazi was a safe subject which had nothing to do with talking about Romney.