Kavanaugh Drama Risks Driving Moderates, Women Away From GOP

[Victoria33]

Kavanaugh Circus Means This Latino Democrat Is Voting GOP In Midterms

After watching how Senate Democrats and the media handled the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, I will be voting Republican in 2018 and for Trump in 2020.

thefederalist.com

I’m A Latino Democrat, But Thanks To The Kavanaugh Circus I’m Voting Republican In The Midterms​

September 28, 2018 By Tomas Mendoza

I am a college-educated, suburban, first-generation Latino immigrant. I voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012. I find President Trump to lack the basic moral character that we should expect in our political leaders and did not consider, even for a moment, voting for him in 2016. After watching how Senate Democrats and the media handled the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, however, I will be voting Republican in 2018 and for Trump in 2020.

Obviously, there is no one view here. Some, myself included, are more supportive of Kavanaugh because of these travails. Some of us weren’t really behind him so adamantly to begin with. He has my full support. My views are similar to the article.

 

[gracepoole]

We aren’t and never will be a monarchy nor a theocracy. In our current age, there’s no reasonable alternative to democracy.

One side’s blind partisanship doesn’t justify the same from the other side. And of course, the candidate himself should demonstrate impartiality. Kavanaugh did the opposite. He proclaimed his allegiance to one political party.

 

[Victoria33]

Kavanaugh’'s predicament reminds me very much of a book I read decades ago, “The Trial” and no, I don’t expect him to keep his cool or be a certain way over farcical allegations that clearly are coming from, surprise, one party.

 

[humbleseeker]

He proclaimed his allegiance to one political party.

I don’t remember him uttering such words.

Just because he was refuting the accusations and questions by one party doesn’t mean he proclaimed strict allegiance to the other. Remember, a judge in a courtroom is an impartial third party. In these hearings, Kavanaugh is being personally accused. Therefor, how he reacts in this setting has no bearing on how he will behave sitting on the bench.

 

[Victoria33]

We do see things a different way and I would not accuse others of being blinded because they don’t see it the same way I do. I do recognize that there is nothing that is being blinded, being malicious, being underhanded as seeing it different than I do. It’s almost seemingly, the way people are wired. I may question though, whether people are looking at the totality of the evidence.

 

[starshiptrooper]

Monarchists said the same thing. That being said, there are better options than government by the lowest common denominator which inevitably turns into mob rule.

Kavanaugh showed loyalty to those who were loyal to him. This is something that I always look for when making an assessment of another man.

When one side shows partisanship in their pursuit of power, standing on principle is suicidal. Civilization is built on reciprocity of principle.

Thus the correct response is to crush the cultural Marxists, see the American left driven before us, and hear the lamentations of the feminists.

 

[Theo520]

Just because he was refuting the accusations and questions by one party doesn’t mean he proclaimed strict allegiance to the other. Remember, a judge in a courtroom is an impartial third party. In these hearings, Kavanaugh is being personally accused. Therefor, how he reacts in this setting has no bearing on how he will behave sitting on the bench.

We also have quite a few judicial rulings that clearly show if he has focused on the law or inserted partisan politics into his decisions. His judicial character is on full display.

 

[HarryStotle]

Victoria33:

Kavanaugh has had 6 FBI investigations so far. How many do we need?

New accusations and/or evidence can warrant new investigations, and this actually is quite commonplace. OTOH, it seems you’re much more in favor of a rush to judgment and so willing to judge what the women say happened as being bogus.

The problem is that there is no new evidence, and the accusations are not even compelling enough to rise to the level of a he-said she-said because many of the she-said claims have been disputed or contradicted by the very witnesses she claimed would support her testimony and by her own account.

The prosecutor who questioned Ford at the hearing has now released her conclusions.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/3651...tm_content=100118-news&utm_campaign=position1

 

[HarryStotle]

Victoria33:

Ted Bundy passed a polygraph exam. Too, the circumstances of Dr. Ford’s polygraph are somewhat in question. It consists of something like 2 questions asked in a general way.

So are you afraid the Kavanaugh will pass, making him more like Ted Bundy (as far a being able to lie with impunity), or that he will fail, meaning he lied?

That would also imply that Ford could be more like Ted Bundy since she supposedly passed, if you really want to go there.

In any case, the circumstances of her polygraph and the complete results haven’t been released.

Also, it isn’t clear that it really was the therapist’s notes or merely Ford’s own summary of those notes that were passed on to the Washington Post.

 

[HarryStotle]

No matter how we view this differently, let’s please agree that Kavanaugh isn’t Christ and it’s likely best not to compare one’s anger to His.

We can agree all we want, but our agreement is irrelevant.

Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ ~Jesus
(Matt 25:40)

 

[starshiptrooper]

Actually that would be a first for me.

 

[graciew]

Why would anyone in their right mind advice, support or encourage this woman to step foward with so little basic evidence? Not a good friend certainly…Either ill adviced or I do not know…
Poor judge . But poor woman too. This whole thing looks ridiculous…

 

[HarryStotle]

Why would anyone in their right mind advice, support or encourage this woman to step foward with so little basic evidence? Not a good friend certainly…Either ill adviced or I do not know…
Poor judge . But poor woman too. This whole thing looks ridiculous…

There is some evidence coming forward that self-hypnosis to uncover forgotten memories was of significant psychological interest on the part of Ford from 2008 to 2012, about the time she revealed her alleged assault to her therapist.

Not sure if the FBI can subpoena her therapist’s notes or her own writings from the time, but it might prove interesting.

 

[graciew]

At least they should have helped her hold on until she really had a case if there is.
Wouldn t you being somebody who understands of law know it would be unsustainable as it was presented? With all the time that has passed between the event and today…I mean,it is a long time,Harry. There was time enough and more to have it ready. Or wait til it was. But not like this.

 

[HarryStotle]

Kavanaugh didn’t simply stridently affirm his innocence. He became combative, belligerent, and ultimately showed himself to be too partisan to handle the politically fraught topics that appear before the SCOTUS. This isn’t about not feeling badly for Kavanaugh and his family. This is about viewing his appearances without emotion attached.

Rather than “without emotion attached,” how about WITH appropriate emotion attached?

 

[HarryStotle]

At least they should have helped her hold on until she really had a case if there is.
Wouldn t you being somebody who understands of law know it would be unsustainable as it was presented? With all the time that has passed between the event and today…I mean,it is a long time,Harry.

Oh, I agree it is unsustainable. Her dabbling with self-hypnosis adds another layer of potential meddling with her own memories.

 

[dvdjs]

If the lawyers knew her story was contrived and still helped Ford to fabricate it along with the scant supporting evidence – the polygraph, for example – that would be a good case for fraud.

If 2+2=5, I am the pope.

 

[Theo520]

She wasn’t given a competent polygraph, they asked her two questions without bothering to establish a base line of reactions to lying and honest responses. They also did the polygraph on the day of her grandmother’s funeral, or the next day. It’s a big ‘no-no’ to try do a poly when someone is grieving.

To me highly irregular delivery of the polygraph indicates she is likely lying, otherwise they would have done it right.

 

[niceatheist]

Wow, so now killing someone, and a woman no less, is justified because of a bruised ego?

 

[niceatheist]

There is no “doing it right” with polygraphs. They’re junk science, based on false premises, and coin tosses are just as effective at recognizing lies. You might as well read goat entrails.