Posted on 09/17/2018 10:20:53 PM PDT by Signalman
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America's moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating, and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-aged adult did in high school is all we need to know to evaluate an individual's character -- even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent -- or rational -- society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime -- early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.
And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: "Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand."
In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.
Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts -- literally all -- Brett Kavanaugh's moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
So, why is this charge taken seriously?
One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the left -- the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the left. Offend the left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.
Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic Party and the media would be demanding the confirmation vote be delayed or the candidate withdraw.
A third reason is feminism's weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party trying groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Maryland, that the accuser attended. "As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers," Jones said.
"Empowers women"? Please. Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her midteens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone and continued going about her job. That's empowerment.
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don't believe her story. Aside from too many missing details -- most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago -- few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.
Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee -- no matter how exemplary a life he has led -- is accused of sexual misconduct ... from when he was in elementary school.
The dems are taking it seriously, just as they didn’t take seriously the facts against bill clinton.
Damn them, confirm Kavanaugh!
Kumbaya, kumbaya, kumbaya......... had led to the destruction of America
Agree. Ignore Feinstein and her little friends.
“To them (i.e., the left), the end justifies the means... Always.”
That’s a fact.
Corker is not on the Judiciary Committee, but Flake is.
“Feinstein and Schumer are below contempt.”
Of course they are. They’re Democrats.
The RINO betrayal of Roy Moore did not buy “moderate voters”, rather it emboldened the demonic left. Are we sure that somebody like Jeff Flake did not collude with DiFi?
Potential alleged groping 36 years ago and ever since impeccable, sorry, this is an obvious hit by an activist left winger, I agree, it should basically amount to 0 influence on the vote if these GOP senators have half a brain.
“Why waste a 40 yr accusation, true or otherwise, on a lower court judge? “
a justice on the DC Court of Appeals is hardly a low position. It is just below SCOTUS in power and influence. That’s another reason why I think Ford is lying: Taking the scalp of a DC COA justice is a big deal. So, why didn’t she do it in 2012? 2013? 2014? You get the idea.
“The biggest effect of these allegations will be that they will give Democrats like McCaskill and Heitkamp and Tester the cover that they will need to vote against Kavanaugh. They can’t justify a vote against him based on qualifications; but they can say they can’t vote for him based on character.”
It’s a win-win tactic for the Rats: Get the confirmation delayed until after the midterms; or, peel off two or three potential “yes” votes. Either way, the Rats win. That’s why they pulled this stunt.
I was referring more to the initial reaction by the dems.
Yes, there was some condemnation of him for it from them, but they did not go ballistic over it as they do with a simple accusation about a Republican.
My problem: i still live in it while most have abandoned it. They tried to feminize men and malenize women. Both still have inborn instincts and live confused..trans genders ..restroom sharing ... kids mixed up.. and alomg comes this trouble disguised as a woman and men surrender to her demands.
I’m annoyed that even an article like this will accept the ludicrous premise that the accusation of leftist who sanitized social media and retained a Democrat lawyer and can remember no details about the incident other than her political enemy did it and it was so bad that she couldn’t even recall it for 30 years before mentioning vague recollections to a therapist but nobody contemporaneous can recall anything of the sort, should be credible argued against.
Look up the etymology of “hysterical”
He’s a joker so that make it okay...at least in his mind and the wee little mind of people like Joyless from the view.
To assume the legitimacy of any premise proffered by a group to which integrity and honor means nothing, forever places the side to which integrity and honor are paramount always at a disadvantage. From here on out I refuse to assume Dems/media actually “believe” anything they accuse, charge, claim or say. They don’t deserve it. In their darkened hearts there is no need for them to first “believe” what they proclaim has happened.
Drag a hundred dollar bill through Stanford University and you never know what you will find!
Is Dennis married? Sometimes one withdrawal no matter how small takes your balance to zero, or even makes you overdrawn. ;o)
Some one please break that asshole’s crooked finger ...
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