HOW REPUBLICANS BLEW IT ON BENGHAZI: Note that this piece by “GOP Media Guy” Rick Wilson was published before Hillary took the stand yesterday. To invert the sentences in his lede, “The news cycle that will follow Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Capitol Hill is entirely predictable,” Wilson writes. “Even before Hillary Clinton faced off against the House Benghazi committee, Republicans had lost the narrative—because they still don’t understand Hillary Rules.”

And speaking of entirely predictable, here’s Wilson’s article, published yesterday at 1:15 AM Eastern:

The stories are already written.

Because Republicans have so fundamentally botched the messaging on this matter (surprise!), tomorrow’s stories write themselves. I’ll lay perfectly good bitcoin that the coverage will include lines like these:

“After a day of highly politicized hearings that even Republicans admit are merely to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, the Democratic frontrunner emerged essentially unscathed.”

I bolded the text in that last sentence, because it’s an uncanny preview of this headline at Democrat house organ The Hill, published at 9:30 PM Eastern yesterday: “Clinton largely unscathed by GOP Benghazi hearing.”

Now if only the GOP could match up their presidential candidates with strategists who can hack the MSM’S OODA loop with that degree of forensic surgery, they might no longer be the Stupid Party.