GOP now sending out trial balloons on the talking point that Khashoggi was a bad dude. Is the GOP base so craven that bad dude=OK for government agents to dismember with a bone saw while still alive? Oh, I almost forgot who I was talking about.
Nevermind.
The GOP is OK with kidnapping non-white children. I doubt their base cares too much about dismembering some annoying journalists.
The comments on a redstate article about the journalist are...telling but not surprising. Some don't give a shit, some think he deserved it, and some argue for sanctions.
(There's an ironic juxtaposition with a front-page article about how sad it is that McConnell can't eat in peace. Maybe not the same people but, still, ironic.)
Most of the criticism is about his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood (in the mid-1990s, from what I can tell, though the CSM* is pushing that he was still an active member). I'm assuming there's some triggering from redstaters when you mention "Muslim" in their midst.
There's also -- I shit you not -- some "Benghazi!" comments. I'm sure some "Hillary!" comments will show up eventually.
* Conservative Mainstream Media