Realization

As with most Conservatives, I have been puzzled by how Democrats seem to range somewhere between denial and "So What?" when it comes to the Benghazi disaster.  For example, last night on "The Five", Juan Williams represented the denial wing.

(paraphrasing) "I have yet to see any evidence that the President or Hillary did anything wrong".

Had I been given the opportunity, I would have asked him to clarify.  With all the evidence collected to date, including both testimony and documentary evidence, what do you mean?  Do you mean that you regard the evidence as tainted or manufactured, or are you suggesting that it all happened with underlings without the knowledge of the President or Secretary of State?

So to try to answer my own questions about why the entire nation hasn't risen up to demand Obama's resignation or impeachment, I've developed a sort of theory.

Polls suggest that a significant percentage of the population has never heard of the Benghazi incident.  Many who think they have think it's about some guy named Ben Gazi.

So my theory is that some substantial number of people, perhaps more than half of the country, don't pay any attention.  They don't know or care in the least about the news, and even less so about politics.  These are the folks who voted for Obama twice because of his media created persona, without the slightest idea about what the guy actually believes and wants to do to the country.

Then there's the small group of loyal Democrats, who get their news from MSNBC.  Many of those folks have heard of Benghazi, but they'll tell you it was simply a tragic attack on a consulate in Libya that has been politicized by Republicans simply to destroy Obama and Clinton.  To them, there's no back story, no scandal, unless you want to agree with them that the scandal is the GOP hatchet job being unfairly perpetrated on their heroes with the dishonest cooperation of Fox News.

Then there are the informed Democrats, who I believe know full well what happened in Benghazi.  They know that Hillary was the one who decided to reduce security after being begged by Ambassador Stevens to beef it up.  They know that when the attack started, Obama told Hillary and Leon Panetta to "deal with it yourselves", then likely took Hillary's advice to order rescue troops to "stand down".  They know, but they don't care.  Some of them believe they did the right thing. 

Democratic power in Washington is the most important thing to them.  They might be disappointed in their President and future President by their behavior in this incident. But in their minds, letting the scandal be fully exposed means opening the door to having some Conservative Republican elected President in a few years.  That cannot happen, regardless of how egregiously incompetent or even criminal their president has been.

So the only way the Benghazi scandal will get legs and lead to a groundswell of citizens demanding an impeachment is if informed independents join conservatives to tip the scales over 50 percent.  Given the huge size and apathy of that first group I described, that seems impossible.

The best case scenario for this scandal is that Hillary's plans to take the presidency in 2016 could be derailed.  But I'm not all that hopeful even for that outcome.