If Romney ignores Benghazi, does he deserve to win the election?

11/1/12 | Vanity

[pabianice]

With the Rancid Media protecting Obama from any discussion --- hell, any NEWS -- of his lethal failure in Libya, does not Romney have to bring this into the campaign? If he does not, does he deserve to win the election? If he does not, can he win the election?

[donna]

Mitt should trust Obama-briefings?

[madison10]

This, believe it or not, is a security issue. Mitt has been privy by now to what is going on in the Middle East. He should NOT be talking about Benghazi when there is an ongoing investigation. He can talk about it after he is elected. His position is not that of the media and he shouldn’t be spouting off all that he knows. That’s what the Liberals/Dems do.

So yes, consider yourself flamed.

[stevem]

If Romney ignores Benghazi, does he deserve to win the election?

Is this a trick question?

Romney's job is to use any and every tool at his disposal to win. If he loses, we are finished as a nation.

Romney may be anything his friends or enemies want him to be. What he isn't, is incompetent. If his research department thought The Arab Spring would have helped, he would have used it.

Let's see what he does as President before we decide he doesn't deserve the job.

[5thGenTexan]

Romney is in a delicate situation right now. He now receives intel briefings. A President can says things a candidate Romney cannot. He walks a tightrope now of almost knowing too much, as it were.

[drbuzzard]

Well he can trust the CIA or not, that’s up to him. I make no comment on the veracity of said briefings. There is little doubt, however, that they do provide information which are not generally available.

[annieokie]

Not at all. Those of us who know.....will vote Romney

Those of them that don't.........weren't voting Romney anyway.

Romney is not able, cannot do anything about Benghazi NOW. When he is President, then he can get involved.

Romney is simply avoiding being trapped into this by the MSN's, who then would say "He doesn't know what he is talking about, or Why is he putting his 2cents worth in, or SEE there Romney is Politicizing it".

[LibLieSlayer]

For once I am speechless... that should tell you something.

LLS

[donna]

So, my point still stands:

No candidate should drop his campaign plan for an issue that is classified. Classified means he can’t get any inside information. He has no power.

[Crimson Elephant]

Romney thinks he is winning, and there will be no resolution on this before the election. So throwing out accusations and challenges is counterproductive at this point.

Besides, this is the job of CONGRESS and the MEDIA. Whether they will do there job is up for debate.

Romney being so cautious shows you they like their internal polling.

[cicero2k]

Romney’s team is correct with their approach. Being specific provides the other side, meaning NBC-CBS-ABC-PBS-NYT; to find fault.

Look what happened when he threw out the number 47% (inadvertently)?

His team’s message: end the failure that is Obama.

Leave it at that.

[LongWayHome]

2 things Mitt did: 1. came out strong on the night of the attack 2. came at Obama strong in the second debate. And guess what happened ? The national press killed him for speaking up that first evening. Then the corrupt media working through thier pawn fat-Candy set Mitt up to be sandbagged at the debate. And somehow Mitt should keep walking into these media traps...I don’t think so.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

If Romney ignores Benghazi, does he deserve to win the election?

If 0bama ignores Benghazi, does he deserve to win the election?

No, and he did ignore Benghazi.

5.56mm

[Zhang Fei]

This (or any other foreign policy topic) isn’t a winning issue for Romney. Think about the small number of replies you see on this website to foreign policy postings. Non-freepers are far less engaged. Ultimately, this election is about pocketbook issues. Obama has waved bin Laden’s assassination around as proof of his foreign policy chops. Benghazi obviously takes the shine off that, but the message has been sent, and everyone knows Obama flubbed this one. At bottom, though, people aren’t interested in the deaths of a handful of American personnel in Libya - they want to know that the economy will improve, and they can get that raise they need to replace the jalopy that’s on its last legs or do that major home improvement that’s been postponed indefinitely.

[FrankR]

I think Romney is smart to not get pulled into this so close to the election.

His campaign has correctly seen that the economy is the biggest concern for most voters, at this point.

Because there has been no official "proof" for final expose' about Benghazi, he could be pulled into an obama "rope-a-dope", in fact, obama maybe be using his silence to lure Romney into such a plan.

Obama has all the documentation, knows all the classified date, Romney does not. IF obama manages to massage himself out of the Benghazi scandal - which, with his compadres in the media he is capable of doing - then he could make Romney look foolish for "leveling false charges".

Either way - whether I'm right or wrong - this is NO excuse to even consider voting for obama, or staying home. Remember, if obama gets re-elected, he'll get away with Bengahazi clean, but there is always the chance that if Romney wins he'll either initiate and investigation, or not get in the way of one.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Impatience is a bad quality.

What would come of it by TALKING about it to give some a feel good moment. Nothing substantive will happen for months anyway. Look at Fast and Furious.

If he is elected I’m certain he will DO something about it but he has to get elected first.

What happened after the Dolittle attack Tokyo after Pearl Harbor? Nothing much. It was just basically a feel good moment in the scheme of things. The enemy was too strong, so we had to slog through the Pacific to really achieve the goal.

If you want to be stupid and vote against Romney. But be prepared for a dozen or more Bengahzi’s and then some. I don’t know about anyone else, I’m sick to death of politics and positioning the message, I want some gd action.

Time to get with the program, go for the Big Win(FMJ).

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Free beer for you!!!

[SaxxonWoods]

The answer is yes.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Indeed.

In addition, Romney will likely have to deal with this in an official capacity in the very near future.

During a time of war, keeping a closed mouth is wise.

[pabianice]

NOTE: I am 100% for Romney. I posted the question as a discussion topic. No implied approval one way or the other.

[traditional1]

Talking about Bengazi at least will make it more public, as opposed to the all-out cover-up in the State-Run-Media.

2)Who said that meant no vote for Romney?

He's wasting an opportunity to re-focus on the issue, as opposed to the full-blown promotion of The Messiah, walking on the waters in the streets of NJ and NYC.....get a grip.