[originalbuckeye]

And Katie, you could have pointed out to the UASToday woman on the panel, that a poll said only 25% of women believe BlaseyFord.

[Architect of Avalon]

[gaijin]

Sabrina Rubin, of Rolling Stone

Made up a magazine article about rapes that never occured.

[Jacquerie]

Kavenaugh has been slandered. A grand jury should be impaneled to clear his name.

[IronJack]

Yep. We should start a movement for men who have “survived” being falsely accused of sexual impropriety (Anthony Wiener and Harvey Weinstein need not apply). They can tell their heartbreaking tales of how their lives were ruined, their careers destroyed, their families traumatized, and their fragile spirits crushed all on the word of some booze-addled tramp or a Soros-chartered hooker.

[ronnie raygun]

When we start to prosecute them for lies and fabrication and send them to jail this will stop

[bgill]

I wasn’t there so can’t say who to believe. However, the one thing I do believe is she’s lying her skanky backside off and he hasn’t had a scandal for the last 36 years.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Brett Kavanaugh’s problems would be over if only he had a Hillary Rodham type lawyer:

There is a vast conspiracy in place against judges such as Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh who stand for constitutional, limited, government. That hales back much further back in time than the “vast right wing conspiracy . . . against my husband” claim made by Hillary Clinton twenty years ago.

Even by Ms. Ford's own telling, in the putative incident:

• nobody was killed.

• the prestige of the US government was not compromised by the brutalizing and murder of a US ambassador.

• nobody spent a night in terror and fighting for their lives without support from their U.S. government employer.

• the incident putatively happened way back in the 1980s.
  • The US engaged in the Gulf War since then.
  • 9/11/01 happened since then.
  • The US has fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since then.
  • No less than a third of the people who were alive in America then have died by now.
  In that perspective, is Ms. Ford’s angst actually the only thing that matters?

And the truth of the charges alleged by Ms. Ford against Judge Kavenaugh cannot actually matter.

• It will never be clear that the charges are true - and it will never be clear that they are false. The charge is too indefinite and witness-free. It asks Judge Kavenaugh to prove a negative. If the facts can’t be known, what would it mean to suggest that the facts are important - or that they matter at all?

So the question for Senator Feinstein, is

“What difference, at this point, does it make?"

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

The claims of both parties should be taken seriously, investigated and truthfulness determined on evidence.

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This is an oversimplification. While being a vast improvement over the "he said / she said" crap so many pundits mouthed in the early going, it omits the procedural rules designed to protect the rights of the accused. The Judiciary Committee is being asked to adjudicate a crime. At the same time, Democrats are making all kinds of demands at variance with criminal procedure. On procedural grounds, Dr. Ford's complaint should be dismissed without even being heard. It's not timely. There is no coherent narrative of what was supposed to have happened. With all the absurd demands being made, it has all the appearance of a politically motivated smear of a kind we've seen before.

[alexander_busek]

My take on this:

This "controversy" is based almost entirely upon the inability of Liberals to distinguish between "plausibility" and "provability" (i.e., "falsifiability").

If I agree to pay someone $1 million if he will awake at midnight, clap his hands together, and then go back to sleep, that person will not get the $1 million unless he can prove that he did it.

Even if it is entirely believable that he did it, his claim is nonetheless not verifiable (unless he, e.g., took video footage or had eyewitnesses ready to testify). His claim is thus without merit and should therefore be summarily dismissed.

Regards,

[2ndDivisionVet]

BTTT!!