Whatever, Gay Mitchell
You are the only one who doesn’t think she struck the right balance for public consumption
She was a deep state fixer. Get the pubbies to give up their time to one person who runs down the clock. Finally Graham realized they were getting rolled.
I would agree with all of these points - if this had been a criminal trial.
I might agree with some of them if this had been an actual confirmation hearing where legitimate charges and concerns were being dealt with.
Thursday’s hearing was pure bullish*t and an insult to all decent Americans. All Mitchell could do was to mitigate the propaganda points the Democrats had already awarded themselves. I think she handled the situation as well as was possible.
She was hired because Republican Senators did not want to be seen as bullying Ford.
She is known as a victim advocate.
Mitchell is not inclined or practiced to drill into the “victim’s” background, circumstances of the event, or motivations for making claims.
What did anyone think was going to happen?
Mitchell might have done fine if she had an entire morning and afternoon to cross-examine Professor Dr. Baby Talk. Her style was disarming and she was able to engage the witness.
The one area she did question Dr. Baby Talk on extensively was her contacts with Feinstein and Eshoo.
That’s an area in which it is realistic that evidence of additional contacts might turn up contradicting her testimony.
If such evidence did turn up, that would support grand jury subpoenas of Dr. Baby Talk’s deleted social media and her communications and warrants for her electronic devices.
If that can of worms could be opened, who knows what evidence of a frame-up might be discovered. So the foundation laid by Mitchell might prove very important.
But that would require an FBI and DOJ to pursue it that was not under the effective control of the swamp, however.
It was there for all the world to see. The dems ignored all of the lies and pounced on BK. Expressing compassion for BK’s family and then tried to rip BK’s jugular.
The democrats manifested their ends justify the means nature and their lack of real concern for BK’s family. I hope the world got a good look.
Women don’t have to be all that good at anything, the simply must want to do it. PC rules. Some ARE talented but none of them has to be. Was this woman in question at all in control of the questions? I’d bet she was handed a script by the mush-brained males of the Senate. I think someone along the lines of the late Dorothy Kilgallen would have left Chrissy Blowhard for dead. Kathy Crier springs to mind.
There were many missed opportunities, many other questions that should’ve been asked. She seemed unwilling to follow-up on each point.
Maybe the GOP senators told her to make each point and then back off. Whatever the case, either she or the senators (or all of them) decided to go easy on Ford.
I think she tried. She did not have the correct skills for the situation.
I think she was taken off guard by the 5 min. format. Or not properly prepared for it. She used long trails to get to her destination, too bad the format required short trails.
Ritual was referred by a democratic staffer of Diane Feinstein.
He was plotting with the Dems from day one .
Yesterday was the ultimate screw you .
Plotting on Thursday to delay more after telling Mitch and Grassley is was a yes .
They let him get away with it.
He is NO from day one .
And this is nothing but pure Deranged Trump hate .
I bet the dems have a former coworker leftists ready in the wings.
The Rinos are playing us and Trump .
No one is this stupid to fall for Flakes Lies.
Mitchell was referred by a staffer of Feinstein.
Though I want the TRUTH out there
and justice to be served.
Walking in like Al Capone with a bat ain't going to work.
There is an election in 5-1/2 weeks.
Many dem voters are waking up to what is happening and walking away.
The dems have 26 Senate seats to protect, the reps just 9.
If the dems lose only 2-3 seats out of 26, they have to pick up 4-5 from reps. That means they have to poach half the rep seats.
Unlikely (except for voter fraud)
If the both sides lose 1/4 of their seats, 6 for them dems, 2 for the reps, that's a 4 seat pickup for the reps.
Win or lose Arizona, Jeff Flake is still gone.
(hey so is McCain. )
sigh.
the attorney the gope wing of the uni-party “ruling class/central planning/free-trading/money for nothing/cheap labor/pseudo scientific technocratic” elites chose reflects very precisely the public face they want to project to their ideal gop voter, and to a slightly lesser extent their perceived notion of a worldly wise moderate voter.
she did exactly what they wanted her to do and nothing more.
She was semi-effective in showing that Ford lied about her fear of flying.
She said she didn’t know Kavanaugh, just who he was because of mutual friends. I thought the prosecutor asking the questions was the best of a bad situation. The dems wanted a situation where they could accuse the Republicans on the committee of bullying a victim. They didn’t get it.
The real defense came from Kavanaugh.
The offense was mounted by Graham and Mitchell. Whoda thunk it?
She was a terrible disappointment. They should have called in Judge Jeanine Piro, who has 100 times more experience prosecuting sex crimes...and calling out liars!