"41 percent of Republicans believe Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history."

[kpete]

Worse than:

1. A systemic use of torture and lying about it?

2. Misleading the public and Congress into a war of choice that cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars?

3. An administration selling arms to terrorists in Iran to fund right-wing groups in Nicaragua, in direct contradiction of an act of Congress?

4. A president on tape ordering crimes to be commited?

5. A president and his national security advisor deciding a war could not be won, and continuing to send American troops to be maimed and killed for another 3 years?

[Generic Other]

1. Worst scandal list here (Please add on):

[Generic Other]

2. My Lai Massacre

"mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

[Generic Other]

3. Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes

From May 2002:

George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11 September that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday.

In a top-secret intelligence memo headlined 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US', the President was told on 6 August that the Saudi-born terrorist hoped to 'bring the fight to America' in retaliation for missile strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998.

Bush and his aides, who are facing withering criticism for failing to act on a series of warnings, have previously said intelligence experts had not advised them domestic targets were considered at risk. However, they have admitted they were specifically told that hijacks were being planned.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/19/terrorism.september11

[Generic Other]

6. Nixon declares, "I'm not a crook," maintaining his innocence in the Watergate case.

The Watergate burglaries, which took place May 28 and June 17, 1972, were the focus of the Watergate scandal, which ultimately led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation two years later. Five men who were apprehended inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building during the second burglary implicated themselves on other counts and charges by voluntarily telling investigators about having committed a "first break-in".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_burglaries

The final blow came with the decision by the Supreme Court to order Nixon to release more White House tapes. One of these became known as the ‘smoking gun’ tape when it revealed that Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up as far back as June 23, 1972. Around the country, there were calls for Nixon to resign.

http://watergate.info/

[unblock]

4. watergate, teapot dome, the entire grant administration...?

and while it's not usually called a "scandal" but sorry, slavery and denying the vote to women sure sounds scandalous to me, along with maltreatment of native americans, Japanese-americans during wwii, and the list goes on and on.

[Generic Other]

7. Yours are great examples!

[Generic Other]

8. Teapot Dome

The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies.

Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".[1] The scandal also was a key factor in posthumously further destroying the public reputation of the Harding administration...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

[Generic Other]

12. Grant Administration

An examination of the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant reveals many scandals and fraudulent activities associated with his administration and a cabinet that was in continual transition divided by the forces of political patronage and reform. President Grant himself was influenced by both forces. The standards in many of Grant's cabinet appointments were low and charges of corruption were widespread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_presidential_administration_scandals

[Generic Other]

14. Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory in eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831.[1]

Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease and starvation on the route to their destinations. Many died, including 60,000 of the 130,000 relocated Cherokee, intermarried and accompanying European-Americans, and the 2,000 African-American free blacks and slaves owned by the Cherokee they took with them.[2][3] European Americans and African American freedmen and slaves also participated in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek and Seminole forced relocations.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

[Liberal1975]

24. The irony

It was huge scandal in 1923 now that kind of scandal is par for the course. They are just smarter about getting caught and the definition of "bribe" has been changed to campaign contribution and a "job in the private sector to be closer to once family." Sad we used to be a nation that have a shit once.

[blm]

16. BCCI - the funneling of funds through Poppy Bush's arms dealing, drug running, money laundering

operations that helped develop global terrorism groups for their international financiers.

[Generic Other]

18. Oh yes, Iran-Contra Affair

So scandalous it tipped the scale over to criminal and treasonous:

The Iran–Contra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[1] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

[blm]

21. IranContra, CIA drugrunning and S&L problems were all peripheral issues - BCCI was the biggest

crime wave against the constitution in US history and THAT is why Bush did NOT run a campaign to win in 92 - he knew the BCCI report was coming out in Dec 1992 and he would CERTAINLY be impeached. He and his BCCI crony Jackson Stephens knew what they were doing when Stephens bankrolled Clinton's primary campaign.

[Generic Other]

17. McCarthy Hearings

McCarthy came to national prominence in 1950 when he claimed to have a list of a number of people (McCarthy did not always cite the same number) known to the State Department as Communists, yet who still remained employed there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%E2%80%93McCarthy_hearings

[Generic Other]

19. The scandal of the GOP voting to impeach a president over his sex life

partisan, vile, character assassination, coordinated attack. Ken Starr. Linda Tripp. Paula Jones. Monica Lewinsky.

They don't crow much about those years, do they? Shameful on the part of the GOP.

[ProSense]

5. This really

"41 percent of Republicans believe Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history."

...isn't shocking.

On the heels of health care, a new Harris Poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he’s a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/22/scary-new-gop-poll.html

Evidently, there are a lot of Republican kooks out there.

[snooper2]

9. 41 percent of republicans think the Earth is 6000 years old

[Aerows]

13. Exactly

I posted mine before I read yours. Facts are nothing compared to faith for them. If you believe it, then it must be true, according to Republicans.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Black Democratic President. Everything that goes wrong will automatically

be the WORST (insert event here) EVAH IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MANKIND!!!

[Aerows]

11. 41 percent of Republicans

believe the Earth is flat and that humans and dinosaurs roamed the Earth together. What do you expect?

Facts instead of "feelings" and "faith" is not their strong point.

[Rex]

15. You cannot fix stupid.

nt.

[PearliePoo2]

20. 41% Of Republicans are ignorant, uninformed and...

just plain, fucking stupid.
(and could not find Benghazi with their ass, two hands and a map)

[CJCRANE]

22. ...but they don't know where it is. nt

[AgingAmerican]

23. Yet non of them can actually say what supposedly happened

Even Issa doesn't know what supposedly happened.

[Zoeisright]

25. Well, since 100% of repukes are fucking stupid,

that's actually a pretty low number.

[rtracey]

26. and

And the biggest scandal will be the Republican Party attempting to make the Benghazi attacks a scandal, when it will be proven no cover-up or scandal

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. These are the same idiots who believe that Ronald (the Drool) Reagan was our best president.

[Dawson Leery]

28. There's much worse: Teapot Dome, My Lai Massacre, Iran-Contra (treason by Hannity Whore Ollie North)

WMD lies/Iraq War 2, Bush's failure to stop 9/11, 2008 neo-con financial crisis.

[santamargarita]

29. This same insane bunch thinks George Bush was

legitimately elected, both times!

[olddots]

30. 100 % of repukes

have their heads up their butts .