(09-28-2018, 09:13 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(09-28-2018, 09:07 PM)copycat Wrote: So you are the same person you were at 15 as you are now?  Because 15 year old TJBender participating in underage drinking would act at all like current TJBender?  You are delusional at best.

No, I'm not the same person now that I was at age 15, and I never claimed to be. But if I had tried to rape someone at age 15, that should and would stick with me for the rest of my life. Why are you trying so hard to make excuses for a man who was one panty-snatch away from being a rapist? If someone had done the same thing to your daughter 36 years ago, exact same thing, and your daughter told you for the first time recently, would you support that person being on the Supreme Court?

There's a level of decency expected of a normal human being, and then there's the level expected of a Supreme Court justice. If I had even the slightest doubt that someone up for nomination to the Supreme Court had attempted to rape someone, no way in hell do I want them on that bench. Your line of questioning here seems to acknowledge that you think the claims are at least plausible, based upon your asking me if I'm the same person I was at 15 rather than saying it's all a left-wing conspiracy that I'm somehow part of. So why, then, are you so determined to make excuses for someone that you acknowledge might have attempted to rape someone else?

Again, going by the allegations and assuming they are true the picture you paint is not even close to what you represent.  Drunken underage teenagers grabbing a boob is now attempted rape?  

For the record, I have a daughter and a son.  I am looking at both sides of the situation and in doing so if I were to take everything she is saying at 100% face value there are so many holes in her statements that any reasonable person would be asking questions.  Yet you believe her even when her best friend at the time doesn't even back her "recollections".

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