Markos tells us now that "Please proceed, Governor" was his favorite moment of 2012. Well, OK. Not my pick, but I understand it. Now with the election over, though, I feel free to write what I dared not write back then, with the election still in doubt.
Romney was technically right. He really was. He really, really was -- and because you don't believe it I've written several million words explaining it in painful detail below. The right-wing critiques of Obama were wrong, but Romney was technically right -- and Crowley was wrong to correct him.
Romney was right to his discredit. He was making a fatuous, jingoistic, and perverse argument as to how Obama should have responded, doubling down on his ghoulish real-time performance of the previous evening as attacks in the Arab world were still ongoing. But he was right: Obama didn't do the politically popular but substantively stupid thing that Romney said he should have been done: he did not conclude that the "outrageous attack" on the Benghazi consulate was definitively an act of terror.
Nor should he have done so. But let's please set the record straight, for the sake of accurate history.