I’m extremely curious how many of the folks making some variation of the “one bad decision when he was a young man shouldn’t ruin his life…” argument in support of Kavanaugh also support (or are) judges who routinely sentence people to years or decades in prison and a lifetime of consequences for one bad decision made when they were young men?
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I called Mike Lee’s office for the umpteenth time and mentioned to the young lady who answered, the numerous lies and scandals Kavanaugh has been involved in. She mentioned the ‘five’ known lies Mike Lee was aware of were verified to be false. WTF? I then started to list the offenses this man has committed. She replied, “Those have all been proven false.” I then told her no SCOTUS nominee should be allowed under a sitting President that is under criminal Federal and State investigations. She went completely silent. I said goodbye and hung up.
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Not if Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski can be persuaded to vote against him. That’s also hoping and praying no idiot Dem’s betray the nation and vote for him. In reality, if the Judiciary Committee can be convinced to at least delay the confirmation it would be huge. Currently, there are 11 GOP members and 10 Democratic members. We only need to convince one of them. But is that possible? What a cluster fuck.
The narrative is so gross.
“She’s only coming out now when it’s convenient!”
Yes, because thrusting yourself into the spotlight so a bunch of deplorables can call you a lying whore is always such a convenient thing to do!
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Both creatures of the Federalist Society. Kavanaugh more so, because he’s been groomed by them for decades.
eta: Originalists, like all fundamentalists, are liars. They take a document like the US constitution, scrape off all interpretations, clarifications (even by the original framers), precedent-setting cases, hundreds of years of discussion and examples, then they lard on their own interpretations, presenting them as if they exactly capture the spirit of the document in the instant that pen touched signature to paper. It’s a false patina as real as a coin marked 324BC.
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It’s my opinion that anyone saying “we can all be accused of something” in this context is telling on themselves, and has more than just Halloween skeletons in their closet. I did a lot of stupid shit as a teenager. What I didn’t do was try to rape anyone, because that’s not “stupid”, it’s criminal.
There’s been a whole lot of self-tattling on right-wing Twitter this week.
Considering that Kavanaugh’s name was only added to Trump’s “I’m only picking from these people” list shortly before his nomination, I’m inclined to say that the GOP, and perhaps Trump in particular, see Kavanaugh as uniquely qualified to go to bat for their team when it comes to the particular misdeeds that this government is likely to be paying the piper for in the near future.
So, yes.
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Fuck that “lawyer close to the White House”. His implicit assumption that every man should be worried, because we’ve all committed sexual assault in our pasts, is an insult to all men.
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Perhaps we misunderstand each other, ficuswhisperer. Yes, of course it’s important.
The anonymous lawyer who said “If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried. We can all be accused of something” is trying to shift the focus away from the many real reasons K is a bad candidate, and instead make his nomination a referendum on the paranoia some men seem to harbor about false allegations against them. He’s re-enforcing the (apparently mistaken) conventional wisdom that “Even a single allegation can ruin a man’s life.”
The tactic only works if the audience implicitly accepts that “failing to get a Supreme Court appointment” and being “brought down” or “having your life ruined” are the same thing. But they’re not, they’re very much not. Even if we accept the GOP view of the facts and the conventional wisdom, the logic fails in the end.
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I do believe people can change from what they were as teens. However, it’s ridiculous to think that someone who’s committed a criminal act would even be in consideration of a judgeship.
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You are aware of who’s living in the White House right now, right?
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Yes, and still aghast.
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perhaps i’m just more jaded or cynical about it. i personally thought of as df protecting another member of the elites from facing the consequences of his actions.
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She knows this is going to turn her life upside down. She knows it may not be enough to stop the nomination. And she’s doing it anyway, because she’s trying to protect the country from having an attempted rapist on the Supreme Court. That’s pretty badass if you ask me.
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Every damn day.
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I’d agree, except this is one side of elites that hates the other side.
The fact that all these idiots are completely incapable of keeping their story straight is definitely proof that he never did anything of the sort. 
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Remember that time a bunch of teenagers were (falsely) accused of rape in the 1980s and Donald Trump took out a bunch of full-page newspaper ads demanding they be put to death?
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It didn’t happen! But if it did I was just JOKING jeez can’t you take a JOKE!
Also Sen Hatch says Ford is “mixed up.” Yeah, who’s more likely to be “confused” about this incident; the woman who experienced a traumatic event that stuck with her for 30 years, or the guy known to regularly get blackout drunk all through high school.
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Kavanaugh’s supporters are saying that what he did was just horseplay, or just a joke, or that hey, all teenage boys commit drunken sexual assault at some point in their school years, or that one little sexual assault shouldn’t be enough to “ruin his career” by which they mean “not offer him a supreme court seat.”
Kavanaugh himself, though, is making categorical denials, saying he wasn’t even at the party in question.
This puts Kavanaugh supporters in a curious position. At this point, the defense amounts to: Kavanaugh is a liar, not a rapist. His confirmation shouldn’t be held up, because he is only a liar.
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I always use the hedonism-tinged informal motto of Las Vegas to describe my high school days…
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