Why did Mitchell waste her time questioning Christine Ford about inanities?
It turns on the fact that Rs didn't expect Ford to be so forceful. They had a plan. It's going awry.
My post:
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Repubs went into this thinking that if they could render it a wash, the handful of undecides would have just enough cover to back Kav, on the idea that this is unresolvable:
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Now right wing media has fodder to tell the base that the hearing was a secret success:
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In this sense, they were "ambushed," as Lindsey Graham put it:
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But Ford's performance might reach them regardless of what Rs did or did not do.
FIN
This point from @brianbeutler helps explain what's at the core of all this:
crooked.com/article/blasey…