I'll grant you one thing, you can certainly tell that the GOP is fully aware that it has lost its bid to delay the disintegration of the party by capturing the White House for the next four years. For all the bluster and confidence, the GOP knows Romney has lost. It has known it for some time, hence the false "Tiger Blood/Mittmentum" narrative, and hence the venal conversion of a largely unavoidable (under the circumstances) tragedy to a bright shiny object to divert attention from the truly noteworthy event.
Yes, I'm saying the Benghazi attack and fallout is being purposely blown out of proportion. It's being held up and burnished with lies and distortions purely to engage the attention of those who've come to be called "low information voters", or as I prefer to call them, idiots. Idiots are easily distracted by shiny things. Especially shiny things that reflect one or more of their deepest prejudices.
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The latest fit of furious buffing uses bullshit wax formulated from a talking point concerning "the consulate warned that it couldn't withstand a concerted attack". Well, no shit Sherlock. I'm guessing that there isn't a US Consulate or Embassy anywhere that could by itself withstand a concerted attack. Simply put, in the absence of a strong host nation defense, there is little we can do to protect these outposts in real time. Danger and isolation is the very nature of Foreign Service, and each of these people who died understood that.
The GOP and their explicit conspirators in this travesty of agitprop could not possibly care less about what actually happened, or whether or not any truly actionable knowledge could be gleaned from a investigation into the events that transpired subsequent. All they want, all they need, is a kernel of emotion upon which to accrete layer upon layer of innuendo, slander, implication, blame, and propaganda.
Now after weeks of "wax on, wax off", we have this great shiny thing out there in which the idiots can all gaze upon their ignorant reflections. Here's a clue, idiots, you are not the fairest of them all. Not by a long shot.