I invite and welcome @sbg1 on my show almost weekly because she’s a smart, I formed, funnily liberal, but her conclusion in this piece —“For his part, Kavanaugh will take a seat on the Supreme Court forever shadowed by allegations that few will believe fully disproved”— is wrong.
In a nation of 330 million a few percent will always talk about the allegation as though it met the minimum standard @SenatorCollins described, but there will be no shadow as that will be a distinctly #BlueBubble point of view. @SenatorCollins spoke for the fair minded and the
reasonable, not those bent by ideology, and insisted that accusations must meet the “more likely than not” standard we live our lives by every day. The noise from the left, indeed the screaming of the mob, hates that standard, but it saved #JudgeKavanaugh and his reputation is
intact among from the center-left to the right, that is, among the vast majority of Americans, even millions who did not want to seat him b/c of his judicial philosophy but Who recoiled from the frenzied McCarthyism of the extreme’s demand that an accusation void of corroboration
be sufficient to condemn the nomination. His reputation on #SCOTUS will be forged by decades of decisions. It will I suspect be a great one, without a hint of shadow for reasonable people of right and left.
