The GOP's Prime Directive now: Stop Clinton!

They know if she runs no Obama nuevo will show up in the Democratic Party to end-run her, and no GOP possible can beat her. Even Chris Christie, who'd likeable but will probably be murdered by Krispy Kreme before 2016.

So they're desperate. Yet they also know she's so popular they can't attack her directly--not yet.

The first step, then, is to delegitimize the State Department she heads.

Hence the phony scandal called Benghazigate. It's not about Susan Rice--she's just a stand-in for the one they're really after.

Especially since the GOP depends on being able to fool Americans into believing that Democrats are always timid and inept internationally--especially in war--despite Obama being demonstrably superior in these regards to the strutting mediocrity who was the last Republican president (making Ike spin in his grave).