Posted on 09/28/2018 5:59:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Thursday's hearing with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, was an almost perfect Rorschach test: Democrats and much of the mainstream media saw Ford's testimony as credible, authentic and emblematic of the mistreatment of women by privileged men. Republicans saw a decent man with an unblemished record being accused of the most heinous criminal acts in a last-minute attempt to derail his confirmation.
I watched the hearings transfixed. I am a conservative who generally supports Kavanaugh's judicial philosophy, but I also believe the GOP bungled this process. I would like to have heard, in person, from Mike Judge, who Ford claims was in the room when the alleged attack took place. I believe it was in everyone's interest -- including Kavanaugh's -- to ask the FBI to reinterview witnesses after the allegations were made.
But we're left to make a judgment without a perfect process. And after listening to both witnesses, I found Kavanaugh's testimony more compelling. That is not what I expected to feel.
Memory is often imperfect, and decades-old memories, even of traumatic events, change over time. My younger sister died when I was 12 years old. I have a vivid memory of the doctor calling to say that my parents should come to the hospital because she was in heart failure. I remember that I was sitting on a swing on the front porch of my apartment building, that I ran down the stairs to our basement apartment to answer the phone. I remember my parents returning later that evening with my sister's clothing in a small paper bag. I can see myself standing on the landing at the top of the stairs as my mother walked in, clutching the bag.
The picture in my mind now is as clear as the day it happened. Except that some of the details are wrong. My memories have conflated some facts. As perfect as the images in my mind may seem, they are inaccurate. The crystal-clear image of my mother clutching the bag as she comes up the stairs is in an apartment we no longer lived in when my sister died. The dress I remember my mother wearing could not have been what she wore. It's a dress I've seen dozens of times in a picture taken years later. I am remembering images I've looked back on hundreds of times, and I've altered some of those memories in the act of recalling them so often. That is the way memory works, and it is why memory is often unreliable.
Ford's testimony was based entirely on memory. No corroborating witnesses. No evidence to support a timeline or important information, such as how she got to the party in question or how she got home -- over 5 miles away -- at a time when she had no driver's license. All we have to go on is the searing details she provided from memory.
Kavanaugh, on the other hand, can point to sworn statements from those Christine Ford said attended the event. Their statements say they do not recall any such gathering taking place, and in one case, that the supposed witness has never even met Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh also produced contemporaneous calendars that detailed his activities from the time in question, which show him otherwise occupied on the dates the event might have occurred. And we have his unblemished record of more than a quarter century in high-profile jobs, which required six full-field investigations by the FBI and a previous Senate confirmation.
Perhaps I am reacting as a partisan -- though I have been critical of the Trump administration and Trump himself. But I believe Brett Kavanaugh. And if uncorroborated accusations are the new standard to determine who is fit to serve, then our toxic politics have sunk to a new and dangerous low.
Flake’s elevator incident was staged.
How convenient a camera was there.
I always said that “moderates are more dangerous than Liberals” At least I know where the Liberal stands on issues!
Of course he is telling the truth and his leftist accusers are liars. Leftists lie. That is what they do.
JoMa
imo no and even though i wish it i doubt the fbi will interview her AND confront her with her contradictions even though that is what needs to be done..we shall see wray has to quit being deep state and man up or he might be hitting the bricks after midterms.
And the thing is, the left doesn’t have to be the least bit concerned that any of this will ever happen to them. The right doesn’t use lying, conniving tactics. They don’t practice the politics of personal destruction. They like to take the high ground. They pride themselves on their fairness, even to the point of learning way too far over backwards, which is routinely used to entrap them by the left. The left likes to use their very decency to destroy us.
Highly doubt it.
I have posted many comments on this farce, but as I reconsider my objections to the extended week of investigation a light went off in my mind. The FBI clears Judge Kavanaugh and the judge is confirmed 100 to 0.
Wow, seems to be a lot of money available if you are a witness that will help democraps screw Trump... $ 528,000 in the liar’s GoFundMe account.
Is anyone going to ask where this money will end up ?
I want to know WHERE the money came from!!! This is a great way for SOROS funded groups to LAUNDER money for witnesses being paid!!!
What the GOP needs to do is hire a large team of investigators to look into Ford’s past.. There no doubt it’s filled with a ton of questionable behavior - Who knew her in HS & college, was she a whore (did she in fact boast about over 50 lovers before college), did she drink & party hard like a recent yearbook post suggests, what have boyfriends say about her , did she have issues with mental health, lots of prescriptions...
What about all her activism, her hatred of Trump, her working for the company that makes RU486, the abortion drug.
Get it all out there, expose her life, like they are doing to Kavanaugh.
It's been seared into my hippocampus that evidence must be provable, and this based on the notion of presumption of innocence, perhaps the highest achievement of Anglo-American jurisprudence in history.
But my norepinephrine and epinephrine are sending me panic signals -- that evidence now must be only "compelling" and "credible," and that "provable" is merely a relic of that quaint notion of presumption of innocence.
I am traumatized. So much so that I am installing a second front door at the earliest convenience.
All of it needs to be exposed. Be nice if the FBI looked into this during the week, the whole scheme launched by the dems
They are afraid of the liberals saying nasty things about them.
The are afraid the media will.give them unfavorable coverage.
They are afraid of what the MSNBC crowd will say about them.
What we saw Thursday was a reality TV show, designed and staged by and for people who let TV rule their lives. This was emotional bread and circuses for the masses. Rats got a dose of emotional high, and probably got physically high and abused their significant others afterwards. Those of us who think logically and factually saw a scripted sham devoid of facts and evidence. This was basically the Jerry Springer Show.
The week delay for an “investigation” (and just what the crap is the FBI going to investigate? Alleged fart jokes? There’s absolutely no evidence of a crime) may actually be a good thing, if the repubs can get control of the process and get it off the TV screen. If the media fluffers can keep the low-info rat base aroused, it will be bad news. I can imagine the 3 RINO women (Collins, Murkowski, Flake) caving and queering the deal. If that happens we’re all screwed.
Not new. Take thier global warming / climate change crap.
Conservatives can’t pull this kind of krap as revenge because unlike democrats, we will be prosecuted
Ha ha ha ha. Rinos?
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