American Spectator
David Catron September 24, 2018, 12:05 am
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https://spectator.org/the-real-victims-of-the-kavanaugh-smear/President Trump’s predecessor famously justified his high-handed governing style by gloating, “Elections have consequences.†That axiom, it seems, doesn’t apply when Republicans win. According to exit polls, 75 percent of those who cast ballots for Trump in 2016 said Supreme Court appointments were “either the most important or an important factor†in their votes. In other words, they put Trump in the White House and Republicans in charge of the Senate so the high court would abide by the Constitution. By smearing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the Democrats have in effect told the voters to drop dead.
The voters unambiguously signaled that they want the kind of justices on the Supreme Court that Trump has nominated rather than the leftwing ideologues whom Hillary Clinton would certainly have put forward. Nor do the Democrats have any legitimate reason to resist Kavanaugh’s confirmation. By every objective standard, he is one of the most qualified judges ever to be nominated by any president. And the calm, thoughtful manner with which he responded to the antics of Democratic Senators during his confirmation hearings further bolstered his credibility. This left them with only one way to frustrate the will of the voters.
Enter Christine Blasey Ford and her hopelessly implausible tale ofsexual misconduct allegedly committed by Kavanaugh 36 years ago. Repeated claims by the Democrats and the legacy media notwithstanding, Ford’s accusation isn’t remotely “credible.†Everything about this fable, from the underhanded way Senator Dianne Feinstein used it to delay the confirmation process to the increasingly unreasonable demands of Ford’s lawyers, gives off the unmistakable odor of prevarication. Nor has the absence of corroborating evidence done anything to neutralize the stench. Feinstein herself admitted, “Now, I can’t say everything is truthful.â€
