Thirty five years later...
When you don’t report what you think to be a crime, you not only fail yourself, but you fail and cheat others. While it may seem unfair to demand a woman face a terrible thing that happened to her, there are others involved. The perpetrators either need to face the penalty for their actions, or have the ability to address them in the time frame when they occurred.
As a young man, if you do something off color, you can be charged with a crime, or cleared from charges that are made. You’re high school age. Even if you are found guilty, your life isn’t over. You can pay your penalty and move on with your life. You can hopefully make something of your life.
Thirty-five years ago a high school kid would have been disciplined. He would not have lost a career he didn’t have. He would not have his whole life destroyed.
I’m not defending what happened to her, but her decision not to take Kavanaugh to task back then, was her choice. It should not be her choice to now thirty-five years later all of a sudden have a change of heart, and try to destroy this man’s career.
How do you defend yourself thirty-five years later? How do you pick up the pieces after you’re denied being seated on the SCOTUS?
I’m not convinced Kavanaugh did or did not do what he is charged with. Who could know?
This woman made a decision thirty-five years ago. She should have had the maturity to stick with it.
No way should Kavanaugh have to face these charges now.
He has been a good man and led a good productive life.
Sorry lady, but your chance at justice ended when you denied the chance of that boy thirty-five years ago, to defend himself.
“I’m not defending what happened to her” You don’t have to. Because it didn’t happen.
OK, I'll defend it - or, more exactly, I'll say "defense at this point is impossible or irrelevant".
He tried to get a girl's top off when he was 17? Sh*t.
Girls are hard to figure out, whatever age you are. At 17, it's damned near impossible.
How far is too far? That depends.
They write songs about this. "Will you love me tomorrow", "Paradise by the dashboard light", etc, etc.
Who she was, what she did or didn't do, said or didn't say, is all critical to understanding what happened - if it even happened.
But I will confess right now that I've been smacked for "going too far" when I was that age, and that I was damned surprised by it.
Anybody else?
I wonder if she would have come forward about this if the candidate was a Democrat???
You are giving her way too much credit. From the time I saw that Trump had nominated a man I knew this was coming. This is the latest democrat tactic for desroying their perceived enemies. I’m surprised that it wasn’t sooner, and more of them. Apparently he hasn’t been around a lot of Democrats during his career. They had to go all the way back to high school to find someone who is a partisan democrat that was close enough around him to make the accusation. This is fiction.
Lets say he is a serial attacker and by her not saying something she would put others in jeopardy for 30 + years.
Should she not be held responsible for letting such a person to possibly attack someone else? She didn’t care enough to say anything back them but now she does.
I don’t think this woman should be able to claim these things
30 years later without some sort of evidence not just he said she said.
“I’m not defending what happened to her”
So you’re convinced something happened to her???