Second, you are missing the will, the need, to find any way to destroy a sitting president of the opposite party, regardless of the harm it does to the nation, so that you can say that you can do better and should be handed power in the next election.
But what the Republican elite don't seem to realize is that this sort of thing only appeals to people who are already paranoid lunatics, and so would vote Republican anyway. It's not like if they can make mad people even madder they'll be so mad they'll vote Republican
twice, they still only get one vote each no matter how divorced they are from reality. It was the same with the imaginary "death panels". No-one could believe that unless they were already insane enough to believe any crap that comes down from the high honchos of the GOP, in which case one of the stupid propositions they'd
already believe is: "I should vote Republican". Having created an unscrupulous and dishonest propaganda machine, the Republicans apparently use it for the sole purpose of painting the lily.