Dark Helmet got that one right.
Posted on 09/23/2018 7:22:25 PM PDT by lasereye
I’ve been saying all week that you could expect another late hit on Brett Kavanaugh over the weekend, and right on schedule, we have the New Yorker story, which, as Paul and Scott have already noted, is pretty thin gruel. But it was absolutely necessary for the left to come up with a story like this, for several reasons.
First, one thing that is true in virtually all cases of sexual predation (think Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein) is that there is a pattern of behavior, and usually several other women stepping forward. This trait was conspicuously absent until now. We know that the media—and no doubt large portions of the Democratic establishment—have been trolling feverishly to find another woman with a story. This is the best they can do—a hazy, indirect, recovered memory?
Second, even a story as thin as this—even if it falls apart upon further scrutiny—reinforces a subtle aspect of the leftist narrative against Kavanaugh, which repeats the argument made against the wholly innocent Duke lacrosse players a decade ago—namely, that Kavanaugh, as a product of Georgetown Prep and Yale, is a product of “privilege,” which for the collective-guilt left these days means you must atone for the sins of your class. (Recall that something like 80 Duke faculty members signed a declaration attesting to the guilt of the lacrosse team based wholly on this ideological ground.) I’d love to be able to do a confidential survey of Georgetown Prep (and Holton Arms, Dr. Ford’s perp school) about how they feel about the left’s sweeping attack on the supposedly reprobate “culture” of their schools. Alumni of those schools can’t be thrilled at being dragged into the mud in this way. (I note that some lefties are mocking Kavanaugh as some kind of nerd for having his calendar from 1982. Well it turns out I have one too, though I don’t know where it is at the moment—likely in a storage box in the garage. Back in 1982 I was a serious runner—tow marathons and two triathlons that year plus a lot of road races—and my wall calendar is where I made my daily notations of my distance and training schemes, as well as travel and even movies I went to. I’ll confess to being a nerd.)
Third, I think this entire late gambit has been one huge bluff by the Democrats, intending to intimidate Republicans into dropping Kavanaugh. I don’t think Dr. Ford has any intention of testifying before the Judiciary Committee this week, and I expect come Wednesday we’ll get a self-serving announcement attacking Chairman Grassley and the Senate Republicans for “bullying” and creating a “hostile environment” in which Dr. Ford cannot “safely” tell her story. At that point, Grassley should call for an immediate committee vote to proceed with the nomination. This latest story in just another attempt to keep the intimidation fires alive. Fine: I say let’s call the bluff and request that Deborah Ramirez, the source of the new allegation, present herself for sworn testimony before the committee.
I think Avenatti’s extensive porn viewing has just given him a “recovered memory” that ain’t going to stand up to scrutiny.
What’s up with Gloria Allred, is she sitting this one out?
The Republicans have to punch back now! This is beyond absurd. Everyone knows this is political dirty tricks. They have over played their hand. They need to vote him in. Tell the Dems to suck it up.
And where is all the GOP defending him?
Already got it. Feinstein is suing for postponement.
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Only through suffering can we find ourselves." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If there is no God, everything is permitted." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no 3rd female
I hate the GOP even more than the Democrats, at least the Democrats are up front about what they want.
Dark Helmet got that one right.
I personally think Collins, Murkowski and Flake are stealth Democrats who infiltrated the GOP. Maybe there’s more, but these three are the most obvious “traitors” in our ranks.
So did I, to quote from the 18th:
“Don’t know, but I remember telling anyone who would listen that if the 11th-hour accusation against Roy Moore worked you could bet that would be the pattern from now on.
...and it is.”
Always? You got that one so wrong.
Rush made a great point a few months ago.
He said that democrats are willing to expend political capital to get what they want. Obamacare. They passed it controversially without a Republican vote and were willing to pay the political cost to get what they want.
Aside from Trump (who is a nationalist populist who ran as a Republican), the Republican ruling class has no balls. They want to be liked by the media or by the two coasts (NY/LA) and cave.
These charges are bull. The new ones are even worse bull and it won’t stop.
Now Antifa is coming to town to cause chaos. The images and audio are on Twitter now. They expect to get arrested by Capitol Police.
Hold the vote Monday.
Let us get rid of those that have no spine and expose the democrats as the angry anti-American mob they are.
There is some text which may suggest that some girls from Holton enjoyed group sex. Due to redactions in the only readily available copy of yearbook page the paragraph's meaning is unclear.
But that is probably enough for Avanetti to seize on.
Of course the girls writing about their choice to do that kind of thing undercuts Avanetti's argument.
The communists Democrats are destroying America. Wake up!
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Actually this is fun to them. It has been since at least Bork and even Nixon. It falls on republicans to stand up and they won’t.
I still think that politicians need to earn the (R) by their name. If they vote with the Dems or enjoy “sticking their finger in our eye” -— we need to take their (R) away and let them wear an (I) or whatever else they choose. They should not have the advantage of Republican fundraising, data, or any other benefit if they aren’t with us. Just my 2 cents.
“if Flake destroys this good man he will never work in DC and he will never be welcome back in AZ.”
He can work for Nike.
And yes, he can work in DC.
I say that with extreme bitterness.
The line will form to the left for those who want to hire Flake as a lobbyist.
At this point, somebody needs to seriously play hardball. The Dems need to be hit where it hurts, either in donations (which a lot of this is about) and/or in prosecuting illegal behavior. Somebody needs to kick the heck out of a hornets nest, right about now. Nothing voters care about but something that will remind them that these folks in no way represent their interests.
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