Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony is over. I assessed Christine Ford’s testimony earlier, Mid-Hearing Assessment: Christine Blasey Ford believes an untruth.
I heard Kavanaugh’s opening statement, but missed over half of his question and answer because of another commitment. So I’ve been catching up via Twitter, highlights and reports. I think I have a good sense of how it went.
It was a home run for Kavanaugh. I was surprised that he came out so aggressively in the opening statement, but it was the right choice. Ford was so controlled and contrived that he was at risk of losing to the sympathy vote.
Kavanaugh was emotional during his opening statement. You could see how Democrats came close to breaking him. Most people could not withstand the Democrat smear machine and sleazy POS social media, entertainment industry and political operatives.
I can’t remember a time I have been as angry as I have been watching what has unfolded the past two weeks. The earlier hearings were bad enough, but at least those smears were about politics. This was personal, and attempt to destroy the man and his family because they could, a blood sport.
In an earlier post I mentioned that there but for fortune could go you or I.
Never was that more clear that today. What they did to Brett Kavanaugh could be done to any of us, and is being done to many of us on campuses and in workplaces.
Those NeverTrump Republicans who argue that Democrats need to win in 2018 and 2020 to save the Republican Party want to throw the rest of us to the wolves who attacked Kavanaugh while they keep their newspaper, cable TV and book deals.
Fortunately, Republican Senators abandoned handing off questioning to the Arizona prosecutor and stepped in to make their points during Kavanaugh’s testimony. This may have been Lindsey Graham’s finest moment.
Sens Lee, Hatch and Graham were all “doxxed” after their questionings today of Ford and Kavanaugh.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/someone-on-capitol-hill-just-doxxed-republican-sens-mike-lee-orrin-hatch-and-lindsey-graham
How low and dirty can you get?
@Nan G: It was revenge for a senator showing there was already a URL bought and paid for that would attack Ruths replacement, even before they ruin this man they are loading up for the next.
So this Soviet style show trial was delayed for ten days because of a lie (she couldn’t fly) and now we are essentially at the same point as we were when the delays started. No evidence. No witnesses. And in the interim, almost all of the positive character references were for Kavanaugh. At least we were able to find out about the high school farting jokes. I guess that’s what the demokrats get paid the big taxpayer dollars for.
Making it worse is that we all knew this was coming. Despite Spartacus and Editicus, the Democrats didn’t lay a glove on Kavanaugh during the hearings, so we all knew (I did, anyway) the Democrats would roll their favorite tactic out at some point. The worst part is, they will do it again at the earliest opportunity.
@Nan G:
Aside from denying Trump a Supreme Court pick, another goal of this kind of slimy tactic is to show anyone who tries to join the government that is not a committed liberal what they have to look forward to.
Well, stand by. We will, no doubt, see. I have every confidence they can top this.
I sent Graham an email (though I’m from Texas) thanking him for saying what we (Americans) were all thinking and doing it in the same tone and manner we would all like to. I think his site was overloaded and crashing.