Why am I reminded of the WOPR?
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.
Trump is toast if he withdraws Kavanaugh’s name.
This is simply a battle that is too important to lose.
I’m going to pray Flake and the rest get what’s coming to them. What makes them think a me too woman can’t come out and ruin them too? I pray it happens. I wish nothing but the worst on ALL rats. Wish we could split the country. I do not want to coexist with these hateful rats. They don’t deserve this country. At this point I’d trade them for illegals.
yep
Kavanaugh will be pro-Trump on immigration cases...
I see the hand of the corrupt uniparty and cheap labor express on this one....
Thanks for calling for prosecution of the perpetrators of slander. No senator is above the law.
And “non political, non partisan” women are calling for a nationwide walk out tomorrow to support Dr. Ford and other victims of sexual assault. Nothing planned or coordinated here.
Sad to say but he’s done. To many cowards to stand up to this onslaught. R’s lose Senate he’s if not confirmed. Can now only appoint women.
That may be true, but you know several Rinos are saying “We’ve got to drop BK and move on...for the good of the country.”
Damn the Dems. Damn the lying women. Damn Grassley for falling for the Dem dirty tricks and not getting comfortable,action last week. Damn Flake, Murkowski, and Collins for being so wobbly. Damn The Whole GD lot of them for conspiring to destroy the Republic. Obama, Soros, and the Dems are dragging the U.S. down.
Find any good fossils? Where did you go?
“....The GOP is as much the cause of this horror show as the RATS!....”
Right on....hammer, meet nail.
GOPe = RAT = UniParty = Deep State = Communists.
Yeah, they all may be wearing different hats, but they are ALL the same and ALL for the same cause.
Then along came Donald Trump.....They didn’t think she would lose.
Why am I reminded of the WOPR?
There will be claims of one or more “credible threats’ about noon Wednesday, and the poor little pitiaful wannabe witness will claim to want to testify so badly, sadly however, the threats just won’t allow her to take the chance.....
Hayward is spot-on, IMHO.
That doesn’t bother him. As one of many among the corrupt, he is taken care of financially.
The way to get at corrupt persons like Flake is to arrest them on corruption.
He has a chance to leave DC in peace without incident.
POTUS and those around them have the goods on the corrupt members that are leaving and not running for reelection. Why are they leaving>? Because they have been told to leave peacefully or face consequences.
Flake will vote to confirm and then will leave.
The question for those that he lives among is will he try to fight another day? What will the people around him do if that happens?
He has to move. He is despised here. He may be able to make a life on the ranch, but he seriously couldn’t get elected here even with the full Morgan Church behind him.
>>>>Now Antifa is coming to town to cause chaos.
>>The democrat brownshirts are coming? This adds an interesting twist.
Hopefully Mattis will be involved in the response.
Mostly leaf fossils. Down near Virginia City, just over Geiger Pass.
I blame Grassley for this....he should never have that scum Ford and here rat minions dictate the election of a SC judge.
Often the corrupt ones stay in DC and go to work as lobbyists which are the intermediaries of the pay to play corruption.
I suspect he won’t be waiting to fight another day. He will subsist well on residuals of his campaign war chest, then go to work in the pay to play arena. That has been the course for decades but with this POTUS, he may not find that works out as expected. Things are changing in a major way.
I hope so. The congress to K Street needs to be stopped.
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