Posted on 09/17/2018 9:47:13 AM PDT by Liberty7732
The current strategy being employed by Democrats to stop President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court has already probably damaged the #MeToo movement.
But worse, if successful the strategy will make future Supreme Court confirmations nastier and uglier and turn them into brief, brute force actions by the party in power. The merit of the candidate will become irrelevant.
The #MeToo movement at one point had so much potential to return male-female relationships to a safer, more responsible, less promiscuous condition than what has been trending since the 1960s. That has probably been lost now by Democrat’s use of a tactic that almost worked with Anita Hill’s unfounded 1991 accusations in the “high-tech lynching” attempt against Justice Clarence Thomas.
These are big prices to pay to try to stop the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President’s Trump’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. This is particularly true because the allegations are deeply suspicious — almost unbelievable. Here’s why:
The source is transparently partisan. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is highly partisan, opposed to Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Court and the subject of her own scandals. She is caught up in her own China-gate controversy as apparently a long-time staffer close to her was a Chinese spy for decades, during which time she and her husband made millions of dollars through Chinese investments. She’s also lied about gun background checks and school shootings and so much more. So she lies for political advantage.
The timing is transparently political. Even though the accusations were given to Feinstein in July, and she spent hours publicly and privately grilling Kavanaugh in the past two months, she did not go public with the information and forward it to the FBI until one week before the vote — after it was clear that Kavanaugh had the votes.
The accuser is transparently political. Christine Blasey Ford is a leftist California professor, registered Democrat and anti-Trump ‘resistance activist.’ Despite scrubbing her social media accounts, her activism is well-known and documented. She hired (or more likely, someone hired for her) left-wing attorney Debra Katz to represent her political interests, produced some dubious supportive material including a supposed lie-detector test, and set everything in order before going public. That’s political staging.
The allegation is transparently contrived. First, of course, it’s always possible the accusation is true. But there is a lot counter to that possibility. The claim is that 35 years ago, as 17 year olds in high school, Kavanaugh and Ford were at a party with lots of drinking and that he sexually harassed her and assaulted her. She filed no criminal report at the time or since. She has not persuaded anyone — yet — that she told another person at the time about the supposed attack. She “can’t remember” whose house the party was at. She “can’t remember” the date or reason for the party. She “can’t remember” any specifics that could be actually documented and investigated. The one person she says was in the room, a friend of Kavanaugh’s, says her tale never happened.
Further, 65 women who have worked with Kavanaugh over decades signed a letter saying this sounds nothing like him, or anything they have ever seen from him.
So this appears transparently set up as a trigger to bring in the “Me Too” activists, now that the Code Pink antics did not work. The strategy is clear. Borking has not worked. So Thomasing will be tried.
This may have some impact on Kavanaugh’s confirmation with only a one-vote Republican majority in the Senate — particularly when very small people such as Sen. Jeff Flake are still in the Senate for a few more months. He seems bent on doing anything to hurt Trump, regardless of what is best for the nation. (What is in the cactus in Arizona, anyway?)
But the big picture is two-fold.
First, if this works, Supreme Court nominations will become more brutal, more ugly, more smearing and nasty. The Democrats are much better at this than Republicans, who have continued to not play the same game and generally allowed Democratic presidents their nominees. But that will likely change, and that is terrible for the country and the Supreme Court.
Expect nominations to be pushed through or blocked by brute force. There will be shortened committee hearings and quick confirmations by the party in power. Or never a hearing for the party out of power. Everything will be party-line.
Second, the #MeToo movement had hit leaders of the political left particularly hard, from Hollywood to the mainstream media. It opened the door to returning to a time when men respected women more and women were less sexualized. That would have been a healthy direction for both men and women.
But instead, it is more likely to start dying away now, just used as a political tool when convenient, and the Harvey Weinsteins and Matt Lauers of the world will slowly return to their ugly ways.
This is all a big price to pay to stop a qualified, constitutionalist judge from being seated on the Supreme Court.
This woman has opened herself up to being destroyed, which the Democrats don’the care. They will use her up and throw her away like used toilet paper. She will be relegated to be pulled out of the closet by the Democrats when they need more sh*t, just like they just did with Anita Hill.
Less promiscuous? IT WAS THE LEFTIST MANTRA FOR DECADES!! Go ahead, sleep with anyone, it is just sex! Now they want to draw back that mantra? Toooooo late! And please notice it is Leftists that are being caught in that far flung net of promiscuity. They want to take back their sanctioned behavior of 25/35/45 years ago? Good luck with that!
They learn much faster than “our” side does.
Building on the #Metoo movement, they’ve realized that an allegation is as good as a death sentence.
In retrospect, “we” should have been right on top of this with several “witnesses” who would swear in court this woman was the biggest slut in high school, petty and crazy when it came to being spurned by men, and with a long history of making false claims.
Sure it would be fabricated, but does anyone really think her story isn’t?
Everyone recognizes that except the 4 Senate RINO's with votes
I may not ever vote for a woman again ... Collins and Murkowski could change my mind, depending how they vote on this ...
I don’t think your example is that far off from the truth. I bet you if you did dig around you’d find out she was a big whore in high school and that imo makes her unstable and riddled with issues. I’m sure she has a lot of baggage.
It was already destroyed for the future with the Anita Hill fiasco. Now it’s standard operating procedure.
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[I bet you if you did dig around you’d find out she was a big whore in high school and that imo makes her unstable and riddled with issues. ]
Freeper already posted something to this affect by one of her fellow classmates.
Nuts and sluts defense. Worked for Bill Clinton.
Excellent perspective.
“it’s always possible the accusation is true”
And it still wouldn’t matter. Drunken horseplay by two teenagers is meaningless three and half decades later.
Weighing the totality of the man’s life since then and comparing it to this event means that he has a 99.99999% good rating and a 0.000001% bad rating.
If he can’t be a Supreme Court judge, Bill Clinton shouldn’t have qualified to be a mailman.
Well, considering that most of the *MeToo movement's leaders would have been positively horrified by the suggestion that the movement ultimately could have the effect of rendering women "less promiscuous" or "less sexualized," I think that this outcome ("crash and burn") was to be expected.
Regards,
And the Dems are trying to POSTPONE the hearing they dont want it this week..of course not..they want it AFTER The midterms, that way they get back Congress, the Senate, impeach Trump, put Hillary Clinton in, and bring in a Commie supreme court justice pick..most likely a Lesbo Muslim
Which is why it is doomed to die.
Anything which is "sure-fire" is simply "too good to be true."
Regards,
Did it, though?
The guy did get impeached.
If it failed, it wasn't because of "nuts and sluts" but because the economy was doing well and because he had the support of the media.
Of course, you can't always count on a blue dress turning up.
Despite Feinstein’s initial statement, I don’t think there is anything in the woman’s letter about not wanting to come forward. All her actions say the opposite. There is major league lying going on here.
Well here’s something they all aren’t thinking about. When they die they’re going to have to answer for their crimes; bearing false witness being one of them. Along with a host of other sins they’ve managed to accumulate and not absolved along the way.
Flawed logic. Impeach Trump, get Pence - even more conservative. With all of the #metoo crap going around, Pence’s choice to never being alone with a woman other than his wife looks like a wise move.
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