Posted on 09/17/2018 9:47:13 AM PDT by Liberty7732
The current strategy being employed by Democrats to stop President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court has already probably damaged the #MeToo movement.
But worse, if successful the strategy will make future Supreme Court confirmations nastier and uglier and turn them into brief, brute force actions by the party in power. The merit of the candidate will become irrelevant.
The #MeToo movement at one point had so much potential to return male-female relationships to a safer, more responsible, less promiscuous condition than what has been trending since the 1960s. That has probably been lost now by Democrat’s use of a tactic that almost worked with Anita Hill’s unfounded 1991 accusations in the “high-tech lynching” attempt against Justice Clarence Thomas.
These are big prices to pay to try to stop the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President’s Trump’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. This is particularly true because the allegations are deeply suspicious — almost unbelievable. Here’s why:
The source is transparently partisan. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is highly partisan, opposed to Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Court and the subject of her own scandals. She is caught up in her own China-gate controversy as apparently a long-time staffer close to her was a Chinese spy for decades, during which time she and her husband made millions of dollars through Chinese investments. She’s also lied about gun background checks and school shootings and so much more. So she lies for political advantage.
The timing is transparently political. Even though the accusations were given to Feinstein in July, and she spent hours publicly and privately grilling Kavanaugh in the past two months, she did not go public with the information and forward it to the FBI until one week before the vote — after it was clear that Kavanaugh had the votes.
The accuser is transparently political. Christine Blasey Ford is a leftist California professor, registered Democrat and anti-Trump ‘resistance activist.’ Despite scrubbing her social media accounts, her activism is well-known and documented. She hired (or more likely, someone hired for her) left-wing attorney Debra Katz to represent her political interests, produced some dubious supportive material including a supposed lie-detector test, and set everything in order before going public. That’s political staging.
The allegation is transparently contrived. First, of course, it’s always possible the accusation is true. But there is a lot counter to that possibility. The claim is that 35 years ago, as 17 year olds in high school, Kavanaugh and Ford were at a party with lots of drinking and that he sexually harassed her and assaulted her. She filed no criminal report at the time or since. She has not persuaded anyone — yet — that she told another person at the time about the supposed attack. She “can’t remember” whose house the party was at. She “can’t remember” the date or reason for the party. She “can’t remember” any specifics that could be actually documented and investigated. The one person she says was in the room, a friend of Kavanaugh’s, says her tale never happened.
Further, 65 women who have worked with Kavanaugh over decades signed a letter saying this sounds nothing like him, or anything they have ever seen from him.
So this appears transparently set up as a trigger to bring in the “Me Too” activists, now that the Code Pink antics did not work. The strategy is clear. Borking has not worked. So Thomasing will be tried.
This may have some impact on Kavanaugh’s confirmation with only a one-vote Republican majority in the Senate — particularly when very small people such as Sen. Jeff Flake are still in the Senate for a few more months. He seems bent on doing anything to hurt Trump, regardless of what is best for the nation. (What is in the cactus in Arizona, anyway?)
But the big picture is two-fold.
First, if this works, Supreme Court nominations will become more brutal, more ugly, more smearing and nasty. The Democrats are much better at this than Republicans, who have continued to not play the same game and generally allowed Democratic presidents their nominees. But that will likely change, and that is terrible for the country and the Supreme Court.
Expect nominations to be pushed through or blocked by brute force. There will be shortened committee hearings and quick confirmations by the party in power. Or never a hearing for the party out of power. Everything will be party-line.
Second, the #MeToo movement had hit leaders of the political left particularly hard, from Hollywood to the mainstream media. It opened the door to returning to a time when men respected women more and women were less sexualized. That would have been a healthy direction for both men and women.
But instead, it is more likely to start dying away now, just used as a political tool when convenient, and the Harvey Weinsteins and Matt Lauers of the world will slowly return to their ugly ways.
This is all a big price to pay to stop a qualified, constitutionalist judge from being seated on the Supreme Court.
No lie detector test should be considered to have any meaning at all when the “memory” is “recovered” in psychoanalysis. In that circumstance the patient will remember with absolute certainty irrespective of whether the incident “remembered” actually had happened or could not possibly have occurred.It just isn’t evidence. Neither, actually, is the “rememberer’s” testimony.
MeToo is nothing more than a Dem slush fund..yes they have brought down some big names who happen to be Democrats but the bigger picture of their agenda is to destroy ALL men..if Trump gets impeached Pence will be gone too..he will be painted with the same brush as President Trump..the left wants to destroy our Republic, will Republicans let them do it
Text of letter Christine Ford wrote to Sen. Feinstein on Kavanaugh
July 30 2018
CONFIDENTIAL
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Dear Senator Feinstein;
I am writing with information relevant in evaluating the current nominee to the Supreme Court.
As a constituent, I expect that you will maintain this as confidential until we have further opportunity to speak.
Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually assaulted me during high school in the early 1980’s. He conducted these acts with the assistance of REDACTED.
Both were one to two years older than me and students at a local private school.
The assault occurred in a suburban Maryland area home at a gathering that included me and four others.
Kavanaugh physically pushed me into a bedroom as I was headed for a bathroom up a short stair well from the living room. They locked the door and played loud music precluding any successful attempt to yell for help.
Kavanaugh was on top of me while laughing with REDACTED, who periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh. They both laughed as Kavanaugh tried to disrobe me in their highly inebriated state. With Kavanaugh’s hand over my mouth I feared he may inadvertently kill me.
From across the room a very drunken REDACTED said mixed words to Kavanaugh ranging from “go for it” to “stop.”
At one point when REDACTED jumped onto the bed the weight on me was substantial. The pile toppled, and the two scrapped with each other. After a few attempts to get away, I was able to take this opportune moment to get up and run across to a hallway bathroom. I locked the bathroom door behind me. Both loudly stumbled down the stair well at which point other persons at the house were talking with them. I exited the bathroom, ran outside of the house and went home.
I have not knowingly seen Kavanaugh since the assault. I did see REDACTED once at the REDACTED where he was extremely uncomfortable seeing me.
I have received medical treatment regarding the assault. On July 6 I notified my local government representative to ask them how to proceed with sharing this information . It is upsetting to discuss sexual assault and its repercussions, yet I felt guilty and compelled as a citizen about the idea of not saying anything.
I am available to speak further should you wish to discuss. I am currently REDACTED and will be in REDACTED.
In confidence, REDACTED.
Dear Senator Feinstein,
I just remembered that 40 years ago, a woman who looked a lot like you did back then grabbed my twig and berries at a Grateful Dead concert in SF. I think you were hopped up on acid. Prove it wasn’t you.
Sincerely,
The #MeToo movement is not a good thing to be saved.
It is a manifestation of the core ideology of feminism, that women are victims, and that men are villains.
Reversing that would improve gender relations.
The leftist lie without remorse. It is best to keep them out of office.
Perhaps Grassley should get all of the male members of Judiciary Committee together showing them letters (made up or real) alleging bad behavior from decades ago. Tell them these are being leaked unless you shut this down. Dollars to doughnuts they all have crap they’ve been hiding for years.
Dear Sen. Feinstein,
Your Chinese driver of over 20 years was a spy.
What secrets did you tell him and why has your husband made hundreds of millions of dollars from Chinese investments?
YOU raped our country.
Prove you didn’t.
Just wait until Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat is vacant.
Leave it to the dems to turn a fine wine into vinegar every time.
conservatism_IS_compassion wrote:
produced some dubious supportive material including a supposed lie-detector test
Polygraph results can be admitted as evidence?
Hope we have 55-45 senate. no committee, no hearing, just name Ann Coulter to the seat and hope for 51/49. Watch liberal heads go BOOM!
Only nominations from Republican presidents will face this kind of smear tactics. The spineless Republicans play nice and don’t pull this stuff on Democrats.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories. -- How Democrats Suppressed the #MeToo Movement in the Party | FrontPage | April 27, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield
Republicans will never fight dirty like Democrats and their media allies. They always want to get along with their “friends”, the Democrats.
Anything is “admitted as evidence” if it suits Democrats . . .
So can we expect NO Democrats voting for Kavanaugh, and relying on Flake, who will likely vote NO because he hates Trump?
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