The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush..By TheWSJ Editorial Board

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The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush
A story this old and unprovable can’t be allowed to delay a Supreme Court confirmation vote.

By The Editorial Board
Sept. 17, 2018 11:16 a.m. ET

The woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a drunken assault when both were teenagers has now come forward publicly, but that should not deter Republicans from proceeding with their current confirmation-vote schedule. There is no way to confirm her story after 35 years, and to let it stop Mr. Kavanaugh’s confirmation would ratify what has all the earmarks of a calculated political ambush.

This is not to say Christine Blasey Ford isn’t sincere in what she remembers. In an interview published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Ms. Ford offered a few more details of the story she told anonymously starting in July. She says she was 15 when Mr. Kavanaugh, who would have been 17, and a male friend pushed her into a bedroom at a drinking party, held her down, and pawed her until the male friend jumped on them both and she escaped to a bathroom until the two boys left the room.

Mr. Kavanaugh denies all this “categorically and unequivocally,” and there is simply no way to prove it. The only witness to the event is Mr. Kavanaugh’s high school male friend, Mark Judge, who also says he recalls no such event. Ms. Ford concedes she told no one about it—not even a high school girl friend or family member—until 2012 when she told the story as part of couples therapy with her husband.

The vagaries of memory are well known, all the more so when they emerge in the cauldron of a therapy session to rescue a marriage. Experts know that human beings can come to believe firmly over the years that something happened when it never did or is based on partial truth. The Post reports that the therapist’s notes from 2012 say there were four male assailants, but Ms. Ford says that was a mistake. Ms. Ford also can’t recall in whose home the alleged assault took place, how she got there, or how she got home that evening.

This is simply too distant and uncorroborated a story to warrant a new hearing or to delay a vote. We’ve heard from all three principals, and there are no other witnesses to call. The only purpose of another public hearing would be a political spectacle in which Democrats could wax indignant for the cameras while Mr. Kavanaugh repeated his denials.
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[Free Vulcan]

The thing about her story is that the only thing she's clear on is the attack itself. She doesn't remember how many were in the room, the house she was in, where it was at, or even the year.

Which effectively puts a factual moat of vagueness around her claim so it can't be cooberated or verifed. It's meant to just be used as a bludgeon without any chance for blowback or countermove.

Just another sickening orchestration by the Dems.

[Bigun]

The thing about her story is that the only thing she's clear on is the attack itself. She doesn't remember how many were in the room, the house she was in, where it was at, or even the year.

Which effectively puts a factual moat of vagueness around her claim so it can't be cooberated or verifed. It's meant to just be used as a bludgeon without any chance for blowback or countermove.

Just another sickening orchestration by the Dems.

Planned months ago.

[Sighlass]

Odd, The Wall Street Journal ran stories like this (see below) when this happened to Roy Moore...

"Without a new candidate, the GOP would be better off losing the Senate seat."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-roy-moore-mess-1510703218

Guess  Kavanaugh is just too much a good ole boy to let that happen to.