(09-27-2018, 07:29 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(09-27-2018, 07:24 PM)TJBender Wrote: I was unaware that refusing to pledge allegiance to one party or another equates to multiple personality disorder. Last I checked, it was called an open mind.

It can't be proven to me. Dr. Ford's testimony, combined with her having named Kavanaugh on multiple occasions in the past, convinced me that Brett Kavanaugh did exactly as she said. The other allegations, I have no idea. The one from Avennatti is a joke, like he is. I hope Collins and Murkowski defect, because Flake was sounding like a man about to vote for someone he thought had committed a sexual crime but wasn't certain enough to say no to. I would much rather have Amy Coney Barrett on the bench than a man who I believe, as do many others, is guilty of sexual assault.

its emotion vs. reason.  Where did this happen?  of the four people she says were at the house, who lived there?  When did this happen?  Why does her friend say she doesn't know the defendant?

But she told her "beach friends" after his mother foreclosed on her house and she started her morning after pill trials that he was little satan.  OK.

I have a loved one who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a family member for several years when they were a child. Twenty years later, they finally got up the nerve to tell someone, and that someone was me. Dr. Ford's testimony is frighteningly in line with what they told me. Vague memories about time, place, all that, but very clear memories about what happened and who did it. And very strong, clear requests for confidentiality, because they feared what would happen if this person found out they'd told someone--which is exactly why they waited so long to tell anyone in the first place.

So she's not deathly afraid of flying. So what? Have you ever considered that maybe she just really, really did not want to be paraded around on national TV, but because her handlers didn't mention that Grassley was willing to fly to her she felt backed into a corner and had to lie to get out of it? She's not clear on dates. Hey, you know what, if I had been violated, I would probably not circle the day on my calendar and remember to celebrate it every year. So Kavanaugh's buddies won't back her up? See, the thing about being an accessory to sexual abuse is that it's probably not in your benefit to tell a Congressional committee via sworn statement that you did it.

I believe her because I've seen someone in her position before. Not in front of a Congressional committee, but I've seen someone have that conversation before, and Dr. Ford's behavior was consistent with what I saw in terms of recollections and emotion.

If I believe Dr. Ford, then clearly I can't believe Kavanaugh. We are about to confirm a sexual predator to the Supreme Court.

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