I suspect most currently serving on the SC would agree with him.
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I suspect most currently serving on the SC would agree with him.
I think the republicans could be badly miscalculating this.
It puts right wing moderates in the Trump camp. There'll be a fierce backlash from the women of America, and rightly so.
It puts right wing moderates in the Trump camp. There'll be a fierce backlash from the women of America, and rightly so.
Republicans don't care what Women think, they only care about controlling Women's bodies.
Kav the beermiester helps getting Roe v Wade overturned a little closer.
I hope you are right as I’d really like to see her keep her seat.
The republican senator for Montana is going home no matter what this weekend
https://billingsgazette.com/news/go...cle_eb0ccb27-ac37-5b72-93b5-93f69e76dbdf.html
https://billingsgazette.com/news/go...cle_eb0ccb27-ac37-5b72-93b5-93f69e76dbdf.html
McConnell will surely delay the vote until next week then. Too risky for him.
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a friend of Dr. Ford’s, had urged her to clarify her statement, the people said.
The statement to the FBI offers a glimpse into how Dr. Ford’s allies were working behind the scenes to lobby old classmates to bolster their versions of the alleged incident, as were Judge Kavanaugh’s. Judge Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court nomination will be debated in the Senate Friday, has denied the allegations of sexual misconduct.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-of-dr-ford-felt-pressure-to-revisit-statement-1538715152
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a friend of Dr. Ford’s, had urged her to clarify her statement, the people said.
The statement to the FBI offers a glimpse into how Dr. Ford’s allies were working behind the scenes to lobby old classmates to bolster their versions of the alleged incident, as were Judge Kavanaugh’s. Judge Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court nomination will be debated in the Senate Friday, has denied the allegations of sexual misconduct.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-of-dr-ford-felt-pressure-to-revisit-statement-1538715152
A few moments have crystallized my view over the past few days.
The first moment was a remark by a friend. “I’d rather be accused of murder,” he said, “than of sexual assault.” I feel the same way. One can think of excuses for killing a man; none for assaulting a woman. But if that’s true, so is this: Falsely accusing a person of sexual assault is nearly as despicable as sexual assault itself. It inflicts psychic, familial, reputational and professional harms that can last a lifetime. This is nothing to sneer at.
The second moment, connected to the first: “Boo hoo hoo. Brett Kavanaugh is not a victim.” That’s the title of a column in the Los Angeles Times, which suggests that the possibility of Kavanaugh’s innocence is “infinitesimal.” Yet false allegations of rape, while relatively rare, are at least five times as common as false accusations of other types of crime, according to academic literature.
Since when did the possibility of innocence become, for today’s liberals, something to wave off with an archly unfeeling “boo hoo”?
A third moment, connected to the second: Listening to Cory Booker explain on Tuesday that “ultimately” it doesn’t matter if Kavanaugh is “guilty or innocent,” because “enough questions” had been raised that it was time to “move on to another candidate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-ford-allegations.html
The first moment was a remark by a friend. “I’d rather be accused of murder,” he said, “than of sexual assault.” I feel the same way. One can think of excuses for killing a man; none for assaulting a woman. But if that’s true, so is this: Falsely accusing a person of sexual assault is nearly as despicable as sexual assault itself. It inflicts psychic, familial, reputational and professional harms that can last a lifetime. This is nothing to sneer at.
The second moment, connected to the first: “Boo hoo hoo. Brett Kavanaugh is not a victim.” That’s the title of a column in the Los Angeles Times, which suggests that the possibility of Kavanaugh’s innocence is “infinitesimal.” Yet false allegations of rape, while relatively rare, are at least five times as common as false accusations of other types of crime, according to academic literature.
Since when did the possibility of innocence become, for today’s liberals, something to wave off with an archly unfeeling “boo hoo”?
A third moment, connected to the second: Listening to Cory Booker explain on Tuesday that “ultimately” it doesn’t matter if Kavanaugh is “guilty or innocent,” because “enough questions” had been raised that it was time to “move on to another candidate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-ford-allegations.html
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I don't know all the details with the kavanagh case.
But from an outside perspective it seems a very selective memory account by the accuser who can't remember specific details but can remember who when and how they were sane of mind.
There other side is pointing this obvious point out that both selective memory and just so happens to come out now of all times.
And as sexist as this paints me, whether there is truth or not in the allegation ( which if true then you pray for justice to be served), it's just another excuse for feminists to jump aboard the bandwagon of the evil men regime that is currently fashionable.
But from an outside perspective it seems a very selective memory account by the accuser who can't remember specific details but can remember who when and how they were sane of mind.
There other side is pointing this obvious point out that both selective memory and just so happens to come out now of all times.
And as sexist as this paints me, whether there is truth or not in the allegation ( which if true then you pray for justice to be served), it's just another excuse for feminists to jump aboard the bandwagon of the evil men regime that is currently fashionable.
You know who has unequivocally lied to congress? Kavanaugh, when he claimed that he never blacked-out from drinking. But all this article shows is that both sides are rallying their friends to support their cause. But such allegations that a witness "felt pressured" are themselves disputed and denied. So this article really doesn't speak to your idea of "lies, slander, and well-plotted conspiracy."
By the way, have you asked your wife/daughter/close female friend if she's ever been harassed? And if she happens to say yes, have you suggested that she's lying?
defend him all you want Mez but at the end of the day, he lied under oath.
This is an opinion piece making the obviously correct statement that false rape accusations are wrong and bad. No one would disagree with that, including me. It doesn't speak to anything about how Ford was lying, being slanderous, or that the Dems+illuminati were engaged in some well-plotted consipiracy.
By the way, have you asked your wife/daughter/close female friend if she's ever been harassed? And if she happens to say yes, have you suggested that she's lying?
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Don't think that will happen, IMHO. Roe v Wade is one of those things that gets the religious base out on the warpath, energises republican support, but do moderate republicans really want abortion outlawed when it gets right down to it? I don't think the political arithmetic makes sense - it would satisfy an extremist minority but antagonise a vastly bigger (currently) silent majority. Many millions of people who probably think abortion is a bit of an unpleasant subject, and aren't going to go out of their way to vocalise support for it, but when it comes down to the brass tacks of taking it away they categorically won't stand for that. Could bury the republican party for a generation.
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