I am a Sanders supporter, and I have been from the start of his campaign.
Tomorrow is Hillary Clinton's testimony before Congress on...well, they say it's on Benghazi. That's what they say. But surely we all know it's really a hearing on whether or not they can destroy the Democrats in 2016.
Gowdy has managed, as have most obsessed anti-Clinton conspiracy weirdos, to self-immolate himself via his actions. But the media will be looking out for great quotes from Democrats and any allegedly "Democratic" groundswell against Clinton tomorrow.
Don't give them that.
Sanders is not campaigning as a Clinton back-up. Sanders is not undermining Clinton, as the point of his campaign. Sanders has been consistent and great about making this primary season about the issues and about the policies that will help the American people.
If you are, as a supporter of someone vying for the Democratic nomination against Clinton, predisposed to take up Gowdy's cause, please read some of Armando's diaries on the subject. If you're still unconvinced, try Brainwrap's diaries. If you're still unconvinced, read up on what fellow Republicans have had to say on the hearings. If you're still unconvinced, RedState.com needs a user base worth it's reputation.
Libya was a stupid idea, foreign-policy wise. And there are far stupider foreign policy decisions in excess of that! From this administration and the past one!
But nothing about the "Benghazi" hearings are about those ideas. Nothing about tomorrow's hearing is about making things better, and every "win" tomorrow against Clinton is solely in service of making things worse, and that's that.
What I'd give for substantial hearings on what we've done over the past decade, from a point of view that I agree with, but that isn't what we have. Not at all. That isn't what is going on, right now.
Everything about the attack on Clinton for "Benghazi" is about destroying Democrats, and creating a political environment that will make those situations worse, in the Middle East and elsewhere.
So, to every Democrat on October 22nd: Clinton may come out great, or weakened. But don't view it as a primary pivot point. It is what it has always been: a sham, a Congressional scandal, and a witch hunt designed not to protect Americans but to weaken candidates who might put the USA on path towards a rational and world-supported path of rational and results-based leadership.