Posted on 09/29/2018 7:24:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was a long, embarrassing day of drama, tears and ugly partisan bickering.
But by the end of Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, I came to the conclusion that both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford had told the truth.
I believed Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh never sexually assaulted Ford in 1982, when they were both teenagers.
And I also believed Ford really was sexually assaulted at age 15 - but not by Kavanaugh.
Some of my fellow Republicans have made the mistake of holding up Ford's fuzzy or selective memory in her testimony as proof that she was not telling the truth about being sexually assaulted.
They shouldn't.
When you are sexually assaulted, as I was repeatedly as a boy by a camp counselor in 1954, it can permanently mess up your memory.
The last time it happened to me, when I was 8 or 9, it occurred in the apartment of the man who abused me.
I don't remember how I got home that night. I can't tell you where his apartment was.
But I can tell you in detail what it was like being in his dark room where he developed the photos he took of me.
It does a giant disservice to Dr. Ford and the rest of us who've been sexually assaulted to distrust our imperfect memories of such a traumatic event.
But the greatest disservice to Dr. Ford - and Judge Kavanaugh - has been done by the Senate Democrats who sat on her allegation for weeks and then leaked it to the national media at the last minute.
For ten days Ford and Kavanaugh and their families were thrown into media Hell, had death threats made against them and were targeted on social media by the sleaziest operatives of both parties.
Watching the Senate Democrats' play their slime-ball politics yesterday was an embarrassment to the Judiciary Committee, the U.S. Senate and the people of the USA.
At times it was pathetic.
We had to watch grown senators acting as if they had never been in high school or college.
We had to watch senators like Richard Blumenthal desperately trying to use goofy teen-age blurbs from a 1982 high school yearbook to prove somehow that Kavanaugh was a teen-age alcoholic who had sexually assaulted Dr. Ford in a blind stupor.
Or using another yearbook entry to make the absurd case that Kavanaugh and his friends had gang sex with a specific female schoolmate - whose name Blumenthal mentioned.
The Democrats on the committee didn't care who their dirty tricks or sleazy accusations hurt - Ford and her family, Kavanaugh and his family or Kavanaugh's high school friends.
My greatest worry Thursday morning was that Judge Kavanaugh was going to come out and act like he did on Fox earlier this week in the Martha MacCallum interview - like an altar boy.
He didn't. He came out firing.
He had to do something he never had to do before in his life - defend his honor from partisan dirt bags.
He did an absolutely incredible job considering how hard the Democrats were working to destroy his reputation and stop his nomination.
Thank God, the Republicans stopped using that dull woman prosecutor they brought in to gently question Dr. Ford while the Democrats on the committee took turns trashing Kavanaugh.
That was a monumental mistake that largely let Dr. Ford off the hook.
When the woman prosecutor began questioning Kavanaugh, the whole country was starting to fall asleep.
Thank God, Sen. Lindsay Graham stepped in and delivered a powerful rant that called out the Democrats for their delay tactics and attempts to make Kavanaugh into a teen-age Bill Cosby.
All in all, Judge Kavanaugh acquitted himself very well yesterday.
Now his fate is the hands of the Senate Republicans. May God help him.
I always thought this guy had a peabrain.
Anyone who believes Ms Ford is an idiot.
I watched Ford’s entire testimony and didn’t find her to be credible at all. The fact she lied about being afraid to fly, and now we have emerging refutation of her claim she went to therapy after arguing with her husband about the second front door, when apparently the permit history shows the door was installed in 2008.
She’s full of crap.
A mental health professional who is expert in field of pedophilia ought to describe behavior of some women who were molested when young girls. I say this because Ford’s behavior is suspect.
Then, have an expert in the field do an extensive examination of Dr Ford.
Exactly...
She’s a fraud from the word, GO!!!
“””I came to the conclusion that both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford had told the truth.”””
Reagan might come to this tortured conclusion. But my conclusion that Ford lied is much easier to wrap my brain around.
If the evidence that has been presented to date was given to a jury, the jury would have rendered a Not Guilty verdict after 5 minutes of deliberation.
I’m not even sure what the issue is...He groped her? Is that the allegation? Does touching a boob at 15 disqualify you from public life the the rest of your existence? Seems silly to me. Shouldn’t even be a news story. Can’t prove he Didn’t do it and can’t prove she wasn’t “assaulted” but the lack of any evidence means he’s innocent. That’s the system of justice that has existed for centuries and that’s what needs to be preserved.
A child of 8-9 is not a young woman of 15, although Ford tried to come off that way with her fake little girl voice. The holes in her story along with the denials of all named by her mean she is lying. I don’t believe that she was ever assaulted. She was known to be very sexually active in high school and this is likely based on an experience she had but it likely wasn’t assault any more than the stories in Penthouse letters are reality.
“”If the evidence that has been presented to date was given to a jury-—”””
Let me add that said jury is comprised of Ford and Kavanaugh’s peers.
And not a jury comprised of media hacks who have a financial interest in keeping the ‘controversy pot’ boiling.
And not a jury comprised of politicians whose only interest is keeping the electorate stirred up so they get reelected.
No it wasn't and it didn't. She got out the obvious lies in her story without abusing her or demeaning her.
Yes, Graham was right that the same questioning against K was going nowhere except to put the country to sleep.
I agree. Her spotty/faulty memory lends credence that she may have projected another male onto Kavanaugh.
I’m not even sure what the issue is...He groped her? Is that the allegation?
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No. The allegation is attempted rape and inadvertently killing her with the hand over mouth. Then when she got away they laughed. Not sure why this groping is being repeated, but it’s dead wrong.
LIAR!
So he tried to rape her? I caught that he was an athlete. Looks pretty big, strong. I suspect that if he were really trying to rape her it’d be done pretty easily. Also, she got away? I heard he was also a track athlete. Doesn’t seem like he’d just let her get away.why did he stop trying? How old was he when he decided not to rape women anymore? How come no one is asking these very simple questions. I admittedly don’t know all the details of the allegations but just from what you wrote I’d be very suspicious of such a story
“I watched Ford’s entire testimony and didn’t find her to be credible at all.” “She’s full of crap.”
Really.
I was abused growing up — not sexually, but physically. While still in a crib I was bruised because I had the nerve to cry and Dad didn’t like it (per my mother who had no power to stop it). Anyhow, children raised in that atmosphere — also children of alcoholics — very often have a knack of reading others quickly. It starts as a a self-defense mechanism to protect yourself as a child, and then remains with you forever.
That bitch was so lying, and it was so obvious, from the get-go. I almost laughed at her. I didn’t because this is serious.
Sorry Mike ‘I believe that Dr Ford psycho-manipulated her scheming mind hypnotically believing it was Brett Kavanaugh who ‘molested’ her. I believe she was never molested in her life but psycho conjured it up for the cameras. Just look at all her heavily leftist connections. Plain as day she was all doctored up for the role.
No, the allegation is that he lied. People can breath through their nose when there is a hand over their mouth. It is pretty rare if not impossible for a drunk guy to kill a girl that way. Regardless of the physical interaction, he says he never did anything of the sort at any time. That means if he did, regardless of what actions he took, he is lying. That is the new charge, and it is the only charge now.
And I also believed Ford really was sexually assaulted at age 15 - but not by Kavanaugh.”
A girl who, by her own admission, was bonking something like one guy a month would have had what she describes happening a hell of a lot more than once.
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