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Women supporting Kavanaugh find themselves in storm's center
WATE-TV ^ | September 20, 2018 | Michael Kunzelman and Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press

Posted on 09/19/2018 10:20:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It started as a series of phone calls among old high-school friends and ended up embroiling 65 women in the firestorm over a sexual assault allegation that could shape the Supreme Court.

In a matter of hours, they all signed onto a letter rallying behind high court nominee and their high school friend Brett Kavanaugh as someone who "has always treated women with decency and respect." And they signed up, whether they anticipated it or not, for becoming a focus of scrutiny themselves.

The powerful strength-in-numbers statement, offered to bolster Kavanaugh's denial of a claim that he attacked a girl at a party during their high school years, has drawn questions from journalists, social media skeptics, even Hollywood figures.

How well did the women know him? How could a statement and 65 signatures come together so fast after outlines of the allegation first surfaced publicly? And after subsequently hearing the details and learning that his accuser was a woman some of them knew, do they stand by their declaration?

Yes, say more than a dozen signers who have since spoken to The Associated Press or other media outlets....

(Excerpt) Read more at wate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kavanaugh; media; scotus; supremecourt
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Surprised it took this long to go after them.
1 posted on 09/19/2018 10:20:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Believe Women

except

if they support Kavanaugh.


2 posted on 09/19/2018 10:22:34 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about all the women who supported the Clintons and still do.


3 posted on 09/19/2018 10:31:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

with the war on women and all that sloganeering, why is it ok to go after women who are in support of Kavanaugh?

Are any of them being hassled or getting threats, as allegedly has happened to Christine Ford? The liberals are agahst that Christine Ford has been hassled and allegedly got death threats. Are those same liberals concerned that Kavanaugh’s supporters could be targeted?


4 posted on 09/19/2018 10:33:59 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Architect of Avalon

off topic, and we don’t know how this will conclude yet.

But, as far as Christine Ford’s life being turned upside down and all that, maybe this will be a warning, to the next useful idiot who decides to do something for the cause.

Christine Ford is a liberal Democrat activist. She is a useful idiot for the forces which want to bring down Trump and Kavanaugh. Her life may well be forever changed. But it was her own damn choice to do that. Women have choices, and she chose to be a pawn in hardball politics. Now we are supposed to feel sympathy for her life being upended. She brought it all on herself. Spare me.


5 posted on 09/19/2018 10:37:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She’ll go down in history as a “dirty” footnote, if the truth is told. If not...she’ll be praised as a “JOAN OF ARC” who helped bring down the terrible, nasty, awful men.


6 posted on 09/19/2018 10:56:26 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Architect of Avalon

Leftist/liberal women, esp. in Hollywood, have no regard for the “truth” if it applies to conservatives, men or women.

This is the Mark of Cain for their deplorable behavior.

I couldn’t care less if they all died tomorrow, and some I like very much as entertainers, but I value a person’s character and ethics above their play-acting.

They have been found “wanting”.


7 posted on 09/19/2018 11:25:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Believe women,” unless they go against Democrats.


8 posted on 09/19/2018 11:59:37 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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I’m wondering if Feinstein may have made a huge miscalculation. Although I know I’m an oddity—a conservative woman who lives in the Bay Area and voted for Trump—I’ve known for some time I’m nevertheless faced with a choice between Feinstein and her even more leftist socialist competitor DeLeon. I have no GOP option at all.

Until this week, I was planning on voting (reluctantly) for Feinstein, figuring she was the lesser of two evils.

After this week, I’ve decided I’m voting for neither. Screw it. She blew the chance for even my reluctant vote. Wonder if there are others out there like me?

I have 3 brothers and 3 sons, and more and more I worry about these unrelenting attacks on men—when will men fight back? Thank God Betsy DeVos has given men back some due process rights at college at least—hopefully fewer kangaroo court situations going forward.


9 posted on 09/20/2018 12:01:06 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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Wish the snarky press would be as critical and skeptical about a thinly veiled attempt to smear a good man


10 posted on 09/20/2018 12:04:30 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Considering the part of Palo Alto the Fords live in I doubt seriously that they have received anything but support


11 posted on 09/20/2018 12:05:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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We can be absolutely certain she received no death threats.


12 posted on 09/20/2018 12:39:08 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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Vote for DeLeon, that will get Feinstein out of the Senate and DeLeon has no seniority. DeLeon will do far less damage then the very senior Feindtein.


13 posted on 09/20/2018 12:46:39 AM PDT by jpsb
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We can be absolutely certain she received no death threats.

I assume she did receive some - from people on her side trying to build a narrative that she's receiving death threats.

14 posted on 09/20/2018 2:52:09 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let us assume that Liar Ford is actually 100% correct in her (clearly fabricated) accusation. Does not the following 35 years of exemplary behavior show what kind of man Justice Kavanaugh is now, which is what their review process is supposedly all about?
15 posted on 09/20/2018 2:58:10 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Trump20162020; Nifster; 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson
emocrats
16 posted on 09/20/2018 3:00:21 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Where are the Obama-Creamer audio tapes?/GM bondholders: America's SAfrica White farmers...)
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To: Nifster

Wish the snarky press would be as critical and skeptical about a thinly veiled attempt to smear a good man

* * *

Yes, the snarky press is not only yellow journalism, it no longer has any sense of decency and fair play.

GOTV!


17 posted on 09/20/2018 3:12:05 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

If the women who have come out to support Judge Kavanaugh will set up an organization, I think they will find lots of women eager to join the fight against the radical women who are front and center in their determination to undermine everything to take the power in this nation into their own hands and to then destroy everything dear to everyone, including our men. It is time to stop treating women as though they are cream puffs when they are some of the most cruel people around. The mannish, aggressive women who are proving to be destructive to our society right now have more testosterone than most of the men we know. So, take off the kid gloves and make them take the consequences that men have to take when they breach our laws. If you get into the game, whether man or woman, you need to play by the rules.


18 posted on 09/20/2018 3:20:16 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Predictable. This is NOT about a legitimate claim by Liar Ford. It’s about a Marxist agenda. The Me Too phonies who have no problem with Islam, attacking decent women.
Conservatives had better make no mistake here. We need to refuse to accept ANYTHING short of a Kavanaugh approval.


19 posted on 09/20/2018 3:25:07 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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and yet the media celebrated women from the girl’s school WHO NEVER KNEW HER OR WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HER (1979-2005 graduates quoted)....

Julia Louis Dreyfus Joins High School Pals in Support of Fellow Alum — Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser
People
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3688638/posts


20 posted on 09/20/2018 3:25:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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