I don’t like this because it validates Ford’s account as credible
no it doesn’t.
her account is accusing Kavanaugh. That is wrong.
If some one else coming forward it shows how VERY WRONG Ford was to accuse an innocent man and train wreck his current life and smear his good name.
I’m okay with that. I think when her ID fails, the optics of the whole thing fall together for us. The democrats look like the opportunistic, exploitative manipulators they are. Our guys have treated the process fairly, and have bent over backward to be respectful of her fears, and it turns out, yes, her fears were real, and we treated her like the victim she was. Therefore, “What republican war on women?” Kavanaugh is exonerated; the other charges look trumped up, our handling of Ford firms up Collins and Murkowski, and with his good name restored, the red dems are under more pressure than originally to vote for confirmation (which I hope they’re too dumb to do and get their clocks cleaned in November). And the whole thing is understandable because this is the way memory works. It’s so easy to remember something that happened, but start merging details over time. If she didn’t really know the person who attacked her, and later encountered Kavvanaugh, who reminded her of the actual guy, she would substitute in his face, and eventually identity, and all the while believing her memory hadn’t changed at all.