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I quite agree.

Romney should go to a prestigious forum like the National Press Club and give a speech outlining the failure of Obama's Middle East policy, the failure of appeasement, the fact that it is now in shambles, and emphasize the lies resorted to to conceal the extent of the failure which is Obama's personal failure alone.

He should accuse Obama of knowingly sending is Secretary of State and his ambassador to the United Nations out to lie to the American public to cover his own failures. Romney should carefully, repeat carefully, indict the media for its handling of the entire matter since Benghazi.

It should not be apologetic and tone but a full throated indictment of Obama personally.

Romney should make Benghazi the metaphor for the failure of the Obama administration across the board. The media did this to George Bush when it made Katrina a metaphor for the failure of the Bush administration, especially in Iraq. Romney who will not get any help from the media but he can go on the attack and change the entire trajectory of the campaign by getting off defense and getting onto offense.

If Romney makes Benghazi the metaphor for failure, he links it to Obama's failed economic policies and it will not send him back in his campaign but make across-the-board failures crystallize into a single metaphor.

Benghazi == Katrina! Gotta love it!

But of course, the Katrina response was a local and state mess, whereas Benghazi was a failure of foreign policy, for which the President has direct responsibility.

I agree, Romney should not let this one go to waste!

Whatever the polls say or the pundits say, or the lamestream media say for the next week is immaterial. The next judgment day will be the 1st debate, followed by the Ryan/Biden debate, and 2 more Prez debates. Then we will see what the polls say. Right now the polls are just not pertinent. The debates are where it’s at next. Also, I highly suspect that in the last couple of weeks, you will see all but the most crooked of polls tighten up considerably, within 2-3 points of each other, because none of the pollsters want to be caught with their pants down when the end result becomes self evident. They all will be hedging their bets. Of course the only true poll is on November 6th, and I suspect the silent majority will make their voices known on that day.

"...but make across-the-board failures crystallize into a single metaphor."

I see what you are saying here, and think you on the right sort of track. Yet the Benghazi mess might not be the best to have central focus upon. It's awkward now (but hopefully in a good way?). People in Libya, along with official "police" have moved against the militias there in effort to oust them. The killing of our ambassador appears to have been the trigger --- IF we can believe what has been broadly publicized (BBC, NY Times, various Arab language news, etc.)

In pictures: Benghazi militia bases stormed (BBC)