A large percentage of Republicans, urged on by Fox News, are convinced that Benghazi is the worst example of corruption ever in American politics.  Worse than Watergate, worse than Iran/Contra, worse than the Teapot Dome Scandal.   Awful, terrible scandal.

They can’t quite explain what the scandal is, though.  The best I have ever been able to figure out is that bad decisions were made.  It’s not like there were accusations of bribes being taken or something.    

“But the Obama administration is full of corruption!” they say, citing the fact that there have been exactly zero Obama administration officials charged with crimes (as opposed to Bush, or especially their hero Reagan, whose numbers dwarf even Nixon’s list).

These conspiracy lovers have convinced themselves that there is something there.  They’re convinced it exists, even though there’s no evidence for it.  Like Bigfoot.  (The fact that most of the same people have no idea where Benghazi even is tells you something.)

They tried to tie Obama to it — remember Romney accusing Obama of not calling it a terrorist action even though Obama is on record the day after the incident calling it just that?  Romney foolishly bought the conspiracy nut’s version of the story, which was clearly and blatantly not true.  And they haven’t stopped!  (You think it’s a coincidence that many of these people are the same ones convinced that Obama was born in Kenya?)  These people have been caught lying more than once about Benghazi, which is why the rational media has mostly been ignoring them.  (Fox, of course, left rationality long ago.)

Now they’re trying to tie Hillary to it, since she’s the latest threat.  So far, it hasn’t worked … the hardcore crazies are riled up, but those people were never going to vote Democratic anyway.  Polls show that the majority of Americans see this as the airless political stunt it is.