that was very well written, thanks.
I hope Christine Ford’s lawyer advised her about testifying under oath before Congress.
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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!
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.
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.
R E F U T E D comes from someone who's never done anything remotely like it, like Big K.
REFUTE!
The dems are taking it seriously, just as they didn’t take seriously the facts against bill clinton.
Damn them, confirm Kavanaugh!
Agree. Ignore Feinstein and her little friends.
Potential alleged groping 36 years ago and ever since impeccable, sorry, this is an obvious hit by an activist left winger, I agree, it should basically amount to 0 influence on the vote if these GOP senators have half a brain.
I’m annoyed that even an article like this will accept the ludicrous premise that the accusation of leftist who sanitized social media and retained a Democrat lawyer and can remember no details about the incident other than her political enemy did it and it was so bad that she couldn’t even recall it for 30 years before mentioning vague recollections to a therapist but nobody contemporaneous can recall anything of the sort, should be credible argued against.
Look up the etymology of “hysterical”
To assume the legitimacy of any premise proffered by a group to which integrity and honor means nothing, forever places the side to which integrity and honor are paramount always at a disadvantage. From here on out I refuse to assume Dems/media actually “believe” anything they accuse, charge, claim or say. They don’t deserve it. In their darkened hearts there is no need for them to first “believe” what they proclaim has happened.
Drag a hundred dollar bill through Stanford University and you never know what you will find!
Is Dennis married? Sometimes one withdrawal no matter how small takes your balance to zero, or even makes you overdrawn. ;o)
What charges? This dimwitted woman made an accusation decades old. It should be ignored. Instead we have devolved to trial by accusation.
We should be lighting up the phones and furiously writing emails to our senators to express our outrage at this dirty trick! Tell them we want Kavanaugh confirmed now.