Posted on 09/17/2018 10:20:53 PM PDT by Signalman
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America's moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating, and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-aged adult did in high school is all we need to know to evaluate an individual's character -- even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent -- or rational -- society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime -- early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.
And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: "Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand."
In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.
Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts -- literally all -- Brett Kavanaugh's moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
So, why is this charge taken seriously?
One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the left -- the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the left. Offend the left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.
Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic Party and the media would be demanding the confirmation vote be delayed or the candidate withdraw.
A third reason is feminism's weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party trying groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Maryland, that the accuser attended. "As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers," Jones said.
"Empowers women"? Please. Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her midteens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone and continued going about her job. That's empowerment.
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don't believe her story. Aside from too many missing details -- most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago -- few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.
Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee -- no matter how exemplary a life he has led -- is accused of sexual misconduct ... from when he was in elementary school.
“I’d let her testify just to further expose the utter, butt-licking hypocrisy on both sides. Hopefully, her story would fall apart in the process.”
I’d agree with you if there were even one GOP on the panel who would ask the tough questions. But they’re so afraid of being criticized for picking on a giiirl, they’ll wimp out. It’ll be an embarrassing display for us. I hate the GOPs more than the Rats. Imagine if our Founding Fathers were such pussies and Grassley and his cohorts.
I hope Christine Ford’s lawyer advised her about testifying under oath before Congress.
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“If the left takes Trump down,...”
The only thing that keeps me somewhat grounded and not freaking out is that I believe 100% that God put Trump there. He did it for a reason, and I pray that the whole I-hate-Trump situation eventually will resolve.
/s/ Pollyanna
it won’t end there. expect more people like her to pop up in the weeks to come. The GOP leadership has to grow a spine and force the vote. 50/50 is the goal.
I disagree that they should be ignored. But they should be recognized as unsubstantiated and that they occurred 30 years ago. They are not an indication of the kind of man Kavanaugh is right now.
This subject on Judge Kavanaugh, has hit my hot button. They are running it to death.. even Fox has it on all the time.
Being older than most on here, I find this stuff just such nonsense! What happened or didn’t happen when a guy was a teenager, should not possibly affect his life 30 years later, after he has led a life that has been checked and rechecked for judgeship and found he is worthy. This is silly nonsense and the media is talking it to death... There ARE imporant things to talk about and this woman is not one of them!!
This being the age where floozy women. loose women.. lying women.. coniving women.. can take the stage and ruin a good man in one whack. The reason she can:.. dopey men are afraid of her and give her every opportunity to do more damage so the men in charege don’t receive hell from society. the society that these women are part of.
I am so angry at the men who capitulate to these women... we talk about congress having no spine.. taking the hits and not fighting back... this woman has come up with this on Kavanaugh.. there are way too many holes in it all... and even fox give the “holes” more credibility than the truth that is staring them in the face. I’m tired of them wimping towards a woman who is a lib, an abortioner, well placed to create havoc to get her way... these women have no place in truthland.. they should be passed by/overlooked. they get money or they get revenge... it’s a ploy.. one that women are experts at.
For a woman who has been attacked, .. take care of it right away ... don’t wait 30 years and open it up at the most crucial time in a man’s life and in our country’s future ... it’s suspicious ... very much so. and this woman has a background that has not been brought up in every report I’ve seen on Fox.. if it isn’t mentioned along with the charge, it’s slanted in her direction. by those who are afraid of their job or future and letting one woman’s lie stand.
For some reason, men can’t see thru them.. but other women can. it just depends on which side we are on. I’m on the side of not letting a revengeful, liberal, hell bent on getting Kavanaugh... have her day or even have her delay. She should be shut down.. but the men are running scared and the women are taking advantage of their ability to get their way via threats and being the ugly female they really are!
I’ll take Door #1.
Franken resigned over it.
The biggest effect of these allegations will be that they will give Democrats like McCaskill and Heitkamp and Tester the cover that they will need to vote against Kavanaugh. They can’t justify a vote against him based on qualifications; but they can say they can’t vote for him based on character.
I wouldn’t say they should be ignored. Mueller needs to be issued a new mission. Find and prosecute everyone involved in this slander to the full extent of the law. We should be letting our politicians know that this is where we stop surrendering. If they won’t put these criminals in jail for this We may have to get involved.
My prayer is that voters eyes will be open to see their manipulators and they will be so mad as to vote the creeps outdo office, and forsake psyops-news.
WE had a President who the same people worship who was sexually assaulting women daily in the WH. And now they are outraged about a claim 35 yrs ago?
It is not that the woman in question tells the truth, or tells a lie - she simply cannot tell the difference.
Fantasy is a powerful motivator, and when combined with an ideological position, becomes a devious and tortured twist to reality and recollections.
Was Brett Kavanaugh ever at “this” party, or any others even remotely similar? That is the first of a series of highly unlikely events, and secondly, the account of him being “drunken”, when by all known records, he has been the “straightest arrow” in the quiver. There is no pattern, before or after the time the alleged encounter took place, of EVER exerting undue influence on females, and if ever a male held women in high regard and respect, then Brett Kavanaugh fits that description.
Slander, pure and simple, compounded by political considerations.
There is a word for this - calumny.
Its not admissible in a court of law.
But the irrelevant, the scurrilous and the defamatory can assume unwarranted weight in the court of public opinion.
Kavanaugh’s only crime is being a teenage boy - never mind his exemplary adult life.
That’s why this is ridiculous and should indeed be ignored.
Yes it is the most important thing to confirm judge Cavanagh! These ahole Republicans never learn. It’s like they think Democrats are their friends! How many times do they have to get beat over the head with salacious, false accusations against their candidates to know that dems are dirty, dirty, dirty!
Wake up Republicans! You are being played again! These charges against the judge are so transparently false and you will have to answer to US if you fail here. It will NOT be pretty
R E F U T E D comes from someone who's never done anything remotely like it, like Big K.
REFUTE!
“The inmates have already taken over the asylum.”
No doubt about it, I said long ago that we have come to a time when those who said things that were once considered as obviously true as the rising of the Sun would be called crazy and those who spouted nonsense that would have landed them in an insane asylum in 1950 would be elected to congress. How far off was I?
In a sane world, she would just be disappeared.
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