Oversimplification. There are several layers of the onion of disbelief to which I've responded:
1. Was sexual harassment a common and uncontrolled problem in the workplace at the time?
2. Could a man qualified for the Court also harass a coworker?
3. Did this particular man cause this particular woman to feel like a sex object in the workplace?
4. Was there sex talk that was an unintentional harassment on his part, perhaps in response to her liking him, but which she felt demeaned by because his remarks were lustful not loving - causing her to talk about it to her girlfriends - conversations that were later dredged up by the Democrats and used as a political tool?
My responses have run down the layers. I agree with most of you that her perceptions of what happened may have been distorted, but still maintain it was not her decision to go to DC to retaliate - she was subpoena'ed, she had a muddled view, but I think some kind of personal stuff went on that he now devoutly wishes he had handled differently.
As AnAmericanMother suggested, after the Democrat handlers worked her over, she may have gone along with their spin of it. Was she lying with intent, or embarrassingly passive and inaccurate? We all have our memories of what took place, and many of them are now sealed under glass. I don't say I'm right; I may be wrong - I didn't say "and I can prove it" - I merely said I believed it, and I've told you why. The fact is, there's a lot of gray area here and we will never know what really happened. My money is on Clock King's posts, 154 and 61.
That said, I'm not slandering the man to say he may have made his coworker feel yucky with inappropriate remarks, and none of that takes away in my mind from his excellence on the Court. I'm glad that he was nominated and appointed - he's been a great asset to the United States and to the conservative movement.
At the same time, I absolutely know that some of the nicest-looking men you think you know are very bad boys around women. He's a human being; it could have happened; and if it happened with him, I'll bet it's not happening any more. I don't see him as a serial sex addict like Clinton, just a fairly typical single guy at the time who probably made some off-color remarks that his political opponents wished to literally make a Federal case out of.
I just don't think she made it all up. Sorry.
Seek help, it's urgent.