The far right wants to use their deaths to attack liberals- what a contrast to the 1983 Beirut bombings where over 200 American servicemen died.
No Democrats were claiming that those 200 Americans were 'sacrificed' so Reagan could pretend we were protecting Lebanon.
Instead- both parties rallied together and attempted to find out what happened- and what we could learn from the mistakes that led to the deaths of Americans.
Fast forward to Benghazi- and from the very beginning the Republican narrative was of blame- rather than of finding the cause, and addressing the errors that were made.
Not only were there over 200 marines lost under Reagan, but there were far more embassy & consulate attacks under Bush, who had a far higher death toll than Obama. Republicans voters said nothing; the folks on this board would never criticize or demand an investigation of a sitting Republican President (for anything). And, as you state, the Democrats never used the embassy deaths that occured under Republican presidents as political fodder, nor did they investigate Bush for ignoring a August 2001 memo warning of an imminent terrorist attack using planes/sky scrapers. Had Obama done this, and had he flown members of Bin Laden's family out of the country right after the attack, he would have been impeached and possible in prison.
The Republican Party has jumped the shark;they are responding to a shifting electoral map. It's becoming harder for them to win presidential elections, so they have turned increasingly to scandal as instruments to survive.
[Any Republican politician who works with Obama or the Left to end gridlock and pass legislation, risks a primary challenge]
The current Republican party is at war with 1/2 the country. They don't want to share power with their fellow Americans on the other side of the aisle; rather, they want to destroy them. The Republican Party of my youth is gone. Reagan - who admittedly created the rhetorical pretext for the rise of the far right - at least made an effort to appeal to Democrats. He was willing to be moderate and make deals with Tip O'neill - he accepted the legitimacy of the democratic pary and its voters (who were American citizens).
But those days are gone. The Right created a media bubble that convinces people that their country has been stolen by an evil, anti-American force. Under these conditions, it becomes rational to use scandals to destroy the enemy. They are at war with Obama and they are at war with Clinton. Listen to talk radio. They hate/fear Obama/Clinton more than they fear Islamic terrorists. They lie out of felt-necessity.
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