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We were Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking buddies. We don’t think he should be confirmed.
WaPo ^ | Oct. 4, 2018 | Charles Ludington , Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher

Posted on 10/04/2018 7:12:32 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher attended Yale University from 1983 to 1987 with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.

We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. In the past week, all three of us decided separately to respond to questions from the media regarding Brett’s honesty, or lack thereof. In each of our cases, it was his public statements during a Fox News TV interview and his sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that prompted us to speak out.

We each asserted that Brett lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. We said, unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk.

Since coming forward, we each have received numerous angry messages accusing us of attempting to ruin a man’s life because of his drunken antics as a college student. In fact, none of us condemned Brett for his frequent drunkenness. We drank too much in college as well. It is true that Brett acknowledged he sometimes drank “too many beers.” But he also stated that he never drank to the point of blacking out.

All of us went to Yale, whose motto is “Lux et Veritas” (Light and Truth). Brett also belonged to a Yale senior secret society called Truth and Courage. We believe that Brett neither tells the former nor embodies the latter. For this reason, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on the nation’s highest court.

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To: jyo19

No kidding. My friends would swear I was a church mouse. That’s because they are friends. There are opportunistic hacks


161 posted on 10/04/2018 9:00:24 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Kevin in California
I stumbled home many nights throughout high school and my early 20’s. I know most of the people I went to school with did the same thing. We had keg parties every weekend where I grew up. There would be over 100 people at the party with more then one most weekends. It's how we socialized. That doesn't make us bad people. None of us committed crimes. We partied like it was 1999 like Prince told us to.
162 posted on 10/04/2018 9:00:55 PM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: Rennes Templar
Here is a picture of these highly accomplished nobodies!


163 posted on 10/04/2018 9:06:04 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputee)
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To: Rennes Templar
We each asserted that Brett lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. We said, unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk.

Yeah, here more than 30 years later, they are able to peer into his adolescent soul from back then, and categorically state whether or not he had ever been so drunk as to be unable to remember something.

Makes sense...

As a frat in the 1980s, I sometimes drank to excess. Others may have believed that I was so drunk as to later be unable to remember anything. They would be wrong.

Regards,

164 posted on 10/04/2018 9:13:30 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Charles Ludington contributed to a Rat congress candidate in 2016


165 posted on 10/04/2018 9:16:37 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: alexander_busek

“had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk.”


WRONG!!!!!!

Many who are in a full blackout don’t stumble or act drunk at all.

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166 posted on 10/04/2018 9:17:41 PM PDT by Mears
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To: grey_whiskers
Obvious why that didn't happen....the Dems hadn't finished with their shopping trip for witnesses. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't using Avenitti’s responses from his advertising for people. They thought they had it wrapped up.....they only pull the sex scandal card when they're loosing.....but they've been on the hunt for willing liars for some time.
167 posted on 10/04/2018 9:19:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: grey_whiskers
Obvious why that didn't happen....the Dems hadn't finished with their shopping trip for witnesses. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't using Avenitti’s responses from his advertising for people. They thought they had it wrapped up.....they only pull the sex scandal card when they're loosing.....but they've been on the hunt for willing liars for some time.
168 posted on 10/04/2018 9:19:34 PM PDT by caww
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I'll believe these 3 IDIOTS if they show proof they voted for TRUMP & not Hillary!
169 posted on 10/04/2018 9:19:52 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: Rennes Templar

Partisan hack joutmalists could only dig up three classmates willing to trash him? Kavanaugh must be a great guy.


170 posted on 10/04/2018 9:21:51 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Rennes Templar

I see. So what are these people doing now? Working at the DNC? Members of the Democratic Socialist Party? Happily spending their new Soros money???


171 posted on 10/04/2018 9:23:39 PM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: JBW1949

and...............don’t forget he was good at athletics as well and that takes many hours of practice.


172 posted on 10/04/2018 9:29:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: Yaelle

I know of NOT a single college student in the history of colleges going back to the first university in the world (Varanasi) where a frequent drinker came first in his class, and was a star athlete in sprints. Not a single one anywhere in any country.

I can believe Brett partied hard on weekends or such, but if he drank too much, even Sir Issac Newton (the most intelligent man who ever lived IMO) could not come first in undergrad and law college.


173 posted on 10/04/2018 9:35:26 PM PDT by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: entropy12

The whole line of questioning was set up to create a “well, how do you KNOW you didn’t try to rape someone, then?” question and was beneath the dignity of what the confirmation process should be.


174 posted on 10/04/2018 9:43:58 PM PDT by jyo19
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To: Rennes Templar
Well Duh, he's Irish, Wadja expect?
175 posted on 10/04/2018 9:47:17 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: jyo19

Yes! The democrats are unhinged since a newbie politician beat out their “smartest woman in America”.


176 posted on 10/04/2018 10:00:05 PM PDT by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Another day, another hit piece.

If you were in college, you’re guilty. No wonder people don’t trust fake news.


177 posted on 10/04/2018 10:02:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bigbob

The compassionate and tolerant folks now rage against drunk people. Never seen anything like it before.

You.knos how they lectured us to take sexual assault survivors at their word.

But Kavanaugh deserves to be scorned because he liked his beers as a young man. Oh my!

The republic will never live the revelation down.


178 posted on 10/04/2018 10:07:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Bookshelf

They are not his friends. Most likely they are people who have been paid by the Soros/Democrat machine.


179 posted on 10/04/2018 10:11:43 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: EdnaMode

How do you like being judged for something you did when you were twenty?

I’m not sure I liked how I lived my life back the and I sure to God wish that I lived some aspects of it differently.

What about the debauched young Augustine of Hippo? Ha would not pass the Democrat perfection test today.


180 posted on 10/04/2018 10:13:17 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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