The Senate’s Choice: Confirm Kavanaugh or Confirm the Obscene Smear Campaign spectator.org/the-senates-ch…
Now we know that while they were preening and posing and proclaiming “I am Spartacus!” they were also doing precisely what they were falsely accusing Republicans of — concealing a document.
Specifically, concealing a letter from Christine Blasey Ford accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault somewhere in suburban Maryland sometime in the 1980s. T
That doc — which, if not concealed prior to the hearings could have been resolved through background investigation or through public interrogation — was held by committee Dems for leaked public release (in violation of Senate rules) after hearings, on the eve of a scheduled vote.
The strategy? Delay, delay, delay. Win the Senate. Keep the seat open through the next presidential election. Win the White House. Appoint a liberal.
We know that because the point woman in the smear campaign, @MazieHirono, was asked point blank if a Dem Senate would keep the Kavanaugh seat vacant for 2 full years and she said: “I think we’ve had those types of vacancies before… so the world does not come to an end.”
Blasey Ford, with a team of Democratic consultants and lawyers, entered into days of will she testify cat-and-mouse games. She even claimed a fear of flying meant she could not get to D.C. for the originally scheduled hearings.
Throughout the stalling, committee Democrats refused to share the original letter with the majority, which had only a redacted version. One of the redactions was the fact that Ford was available to meet in D.C. from July 30 to August 7, and would be available in CA on August 10 —
-- which means she was planning to drive 40-plus hours straight without any stops, or the fear of flying was new this month.
The new accuser, Deborah Ramirez, was found and cultivated by committee Democrats according to the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, whose story with Jane Mayer broke the Ramirez allegations, which had already been rejected by the mainstream media.
Ramirez “was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty. After 6 days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney she said she felt confident enough to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself ...”
2 vague, unsubstantiated, uncorroborated allegations do not add up to a pattern of anything except an obscene smear campaign against a good man on whom no genuine dirt could be found.
(Remember the initial attacks on Kavanaugh for putting baseball tickets on his credit card and topping his spaghetti with ketchup?)
Evidence doesn’t matter. There is no presumption of innocence. Whatever disgusting smears Kavanaugh and his wife and two daughters suffer are worth it, Dems think, if they can keep a pro-life justice from sitting on the Supreme Court.
(This, despite the fact that Kavanaugh has stated Roe v. Wade is settled law and most pro-lifers preferred Amy Coney Barrett over him for this vacancy.)
Every Senator now faces a very stark choice.
Every Senator now faces a very stark choice.
Either vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh or vote to confirm the legitimacy of the most obscene, vicious, unfounded smear campaign we have ever seen. And if the Senate does the latter there may be no depths to which our political culture will not sink.
