Are Republicans seriously claiming Romney was right on Obama's Libya comment

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There was a legitimate point that Romney was trying to make, but it wasn't about what Obama said the next day. He most certainly wasn't intentionally lying. His point should have been to weave together miscommunications over the next 14 days, the testimony about what the State Dept supposedly knew the day of the attack, the post attack fundraisers, and the judgement call within the Administration not to send in extra security, to cast doubt on Obama's foreign policy credentials and put a question mark on internal communication within the administration. He also should never have openly hinted that Obama is trying to cover something up and provide him a chance to get outraged, you let the undecided Virginia or Ohio voter draw that conclusion on his own based around the points you make.

The answer to all of Mittens blunders on Libya, rests in the fact that Romney was thrown off kilter early on by his bad start. When you are on the defensive like that, you slowly lose the focus needed on certain questions, and Libya was towards the end. If he had the choice to elect to go second after winning the coin toss on the first question, he should have taken it. That way his first remarks could have been geared based upon having full knowledge of much force Obama was bringing and thus could have crafted his words accordingly. That may have made the difference between them being on a even keel at the beginning or Romney being at a disadvantage.  

Libya, Autos, Not Like Bush, and Things Still Aren't Good, should have been his strongest moments. Going in there was no way of knowing whether these things would have come up or not, but Romney had good opportunities on all four and blew all but 1, maybe 2 of them. He also came out worse on style because he too often panicked when Obama was throwing crap at him, and then sought to use time from the next question to defend himself. He should have made efforts to respect questioners more and make Obama look bad in contrast as he tried to make up for lost ground from Denver at the expense of the questioners.