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Report: Kavanaugh accuser’s lawyer trying to impose “serious conditions” on her testimony
Hot Air ^ | September 18, 2018

Posted on 09/18/2018 3:38:53 PM PDT by detective

No idea what this means. Presumably she wants the GOP to agree not to question Christine Blasey Ford about her personal background, e.g., sexual habits, drinking habits, and so forth, such that the hearing ends up with Ford being dragged through the mud.

I’m in the minority among the commentariat, though, in believing that it’s unlikely they’ll do that anyway. The optics of the hearing are already so terrible for Republicans, and the damage among women voters already so potentially grave, that they’ll be respectful of Ford out of self-interest if nothing else. Barring an unlikely meltdown of credibility at the hearing by Ford, it’s already a no-win situation for Republicans. Why make it worse by putting her through the wringer?

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To: JonPreston

How would it be? If it’s another allegation with no proof like this one I think the nomination is still in fine shape. The thing that did in Moore was not denying it (and the fact that his wife was 15 years younger than him). The thing that did in Franken was photographic evidence and multiple women. There are about 64 more women BACKING UP Kavanaugh and his character than there are accusing him of anything and the fact that the one accuser seems to be running scared shows you what brittle glass her accusation stands on.


21 posted on 09/18/2018 3:57:53 PM PDT by jyo19
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To: detective

Who on the committee has followed the rules so far? They paid people to disrupt and protest. Are there going to be more protests during the questions?


22 posted on 09/18/2018 3:57:54 PM PDT by FreedBird (E)
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To: detective

They’re trying to cover her nonappearance by passing the buck to the GOP

She won’t show because the sexist Republicans would make her the victim

And we just can’t have that


23 posted on 09/18/2018 3:58:10 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: a fool in paradise
she would've gone with a friend at that age

Good point. Only way gals got that much freedom is if they pretended they were going to a movie or staying at the others house or whatever.

24 posted on 09/18/2018 3:59:49 PM PDT by grania
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To: detective

Kavanaugh has a female lawyer.
Turn her loose on the nutcase liar.


25 posted on 09/18/2018 3:59:58 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: detective
". . .it’s already a no-win situation for Republicans."

No, it's not. All they have to do is vote to approve his appointment to the USSC and they win.

26 posted on 09/18/2018 4:01:17 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: detective

You know, for an equal sex they sure do require a lot of special treatment


27 posted on 09/18/2018 4:01:38 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: detective

There’s being respectful and then there’s a searching for truth

Sounds like this puke was a hard partying girl who is willing to lie for the cause


28 posted on 09/18/2018 4:03:00 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: detective

She should be treated as the “political whore” she is.


29 posted on 09/18/2018 4:03:50 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: detective

It’s a public accusation.

It needs to be a public hearing, no boundaries.


30 posted on 09/18/2018 4:04:16 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: wiseprince

Testimony with no conditions or withdraw the invitation to appear.

Then vote.


31 posted on 09/18/2018 4:04:23 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: grania

Also with the one piece swimsuit was this a pool party? Again one girl for guys at the pool I just don’t see that


32 posted on 09/18/2018 4:04:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: detective

That is what has been missing. It does seem strange that none of her high school associates have come forward to support her or give info on her history.

Per Rush L the 65 women who signed a letter supporting Kavanaugh has increased to 200 women.


33 posted on 09/18/2018 4:05:42 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: detective

“”and the damage among women voters already so potentially grave””

I love how all these so called writers can speak for all of us or at least they presume they do. None of this has damaged me or my thinking in any way. Nothing can make me believe it is anything except just plain STUPID!


34 posted on 09/18/2018 4:06:38 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: wiseprince

Many women today don’t want to be ‘equal’. They want to be totally unaccountable.


35 posted on 09/18/2018 4:06:58 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Dr. Sivana

Committee vote first....


36 posted on 09/18/2018 4:08:58 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: detective

They need to be respectful, but they also need to be able to call her out if doing so is in the service of determining whether Kavanaugh should or should not sit on the bench. If she came forward with the intention of serving the public good she should be willing to go through with what is required for that goal. As it stands, Blasey Ford is setting the cause of women being taken seriously way the heck back since she has taken the fruit of so many gains and is squandering it. Who will listen to the next woman? The next woman who is likely in a good deal of jeopardy of the sort that Blasey Ford seems unacquainted with?!


37 posted on 09/18/2018 4:09:38 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sk070518dAPR20180705064505.jpg)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

There have been several internet posts that suggest she was a serious “slut” during high school.......


38 posted on 09/18/2018 4:10:43 PM PDT by Stayfree (Liberalism is a mental disease caused by stupidity and elitism!!)
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To: a fool in paradise

“One girl (younger than) and 4 boys, and that’s the total attendance at it? I never sausage a party.”


I don’t know. Maybe she thought it might be “all you can eat”.


39 posted on 09/18/2018 4:11:33 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: detective

Lemme guess...the first condition: no sworn testimony.


40 posted on 09/18/2018 4:11:48 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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