Rigged game

Politics must be a rigged game. How else do you explain the reaction to Ron Paul with respect to bin Laden?

Paul said in the most recent debate something to the effect that bin Laden should have been captured.  So, what's wrong with that?  Instead, the Washington Post has now said that Paul had

... convoluted answers on defense spending and the killing of Osama bin Laden that no doubt put him at odds with a majority of South Carolina Republicans.

Why should South Carolina Republicans support the way bin Laden was killed?  Are they going to rubber stamp the way Obama handled the situation?  Do they really want to be seen rubber stamping decisions of someone who they claim to be so dedicated to defeating?  This notion given here by the Post is either wrong, and the Republicans don't really support Obama's decision, or something is rotten in Denmark.

I suspect that the bin Laden operation was done as much for Obama's political benefit as for anything else.  Why not point that out?  The administration said they didn't want to "spike the football", but that's about all that they've been doing on the subject.

Update:

What about the opportunity to catch bin Laden during the Clinton administration?  According to this FactCheck.org post, the offer wasn't credible.  FactCheck cites the 911 report as its evidence and says it has to be considered the last word.

Even if it is considered to be the "last word", I am still suspicious.  The reason is that to put bin Laden on trial would be a nightmare scenario that the government would just as soon avoid.  That would have been true all along, even before 911.

There were those who considered bin Laden responsible for the first 911 attacks.  How much trouble would it have been to conduct a military tribunal in Guantanamo?  This might have taken place before 911 and possibly averted the attacks.   But that would be considered "Whig" history according to Factcheck post.  But I am still suspicious.

It might have occurred after 911, but the government let bin Laden get away.

Did the Bush administration avoid killing bin Laden because they thought him more useful alive than dead?

Did the Obama think just the opposite?