First Sen. Dianne Feinstein held onto Christine Ford’s scarlet letter since July and now Ford is demanding an FBI investigation before she will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Feinstein held onto the letter until the 11th hour so that Judge Kavenaugh’s nomination would be torpedoed. Because an FBI investigation would take weeks, it is now clear that all along Ford’s intent was to kill the Kavanaugh nomination.
Now Feinstein says she does not know if Ford’s allegations are true. Even if they are true, should the reprehensible behavior of a 17-year-old teenager 36 years ago be grounds to keep Kaanaugh off the Supreme Court? What about Judge Kavanaugh’s impeccable record as an adult? I thought this is a nation that believes in giving wrongdoers a second chance. We give prison inmates, even murderers, a second chance when they are released.
The Democratic Senators are intent on killing the Kavanaugh nomination. They have now been given a big boost by Palo Alto University psychology professor Christine Ford. Her character assassination may well kill the nomination, as was clearly her intent when she sent that scarlet letter to Feinstein.
Kavanaugh categorically denies the attempted rape ever took place. Mark Judge, who Ford claimed was Kavanaugh’s’ accomplice, says he has no recollection of anything like that happening and that “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.” And now Patrick J. Smyth, who was identified as “PJ” in the scarlet letter, denies being present at the party and says, “I have known Brett Kavanaugh since high school. I have never witnessed any improper conduct by Brett Kavanaugh towards women.”
The Democrats say that Ford’s allegations make Kavanaugh unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Oh yea? If so, isn’t he also unfit to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals? Quick, start impeachment proceedings against the appellate court judge!
You can expect the Democrats to do what they do. But what is outrageous is that even some Republicans are now wavering in their support of Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh deserves to have his nomination approved. He is eminently qualified to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ford’s character assassination should not stand in the way. Shame, shame on any Senator who will vote against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Mick says
I truly have no idea whether Kavanaugh is guilty or is being wrongly accused, and neither do the rest of us. For now, I have no choice but to reserve judgment.
But I can respond to the deeply flawed logic in this statement — ” I thought this is a nation that believes in giving wrongdoers a second chance. We give prison inmates, even murderers, a second chance when they are released.”
You are correct, we do – but that is AFTER, NOT BEFORE, they have been punished. That’s a hell of a false equivalency there, Mr. Katz.
I wish to remain anonymous says
IMHO 36 years later is too late and she should go quietly into the night.
Howie Katz says
Mick, I beg to differ with you. Please note what I said about the allegations: “Even if they are true …..” Thus if Kavanaugh was denied a seat on the Supreme Court he would have been punished without getting a second chance for his teenage wrongdoing.
Mick says
Absence of a reward is not punishment.
Gaga54 says
Yup
Bill Daniels says
Somehow, this guy who everyone who actually knows him says is a really nice guy, was a serial rapist for a couple of years and then just returned to being a kind, gentle Boy Scout? Look at who is accusing him….crazed, anti Trump leftists.
No, sorry, Kav is fully and truly INNOCENT. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
If this can be done to a guy like that, any one of us can get ‘got’ at any time, and for any reason a leftist chooses. And for the women out there, any man YOU care about can get ‘got.’ Imagine if Kav was your son, your husband, or your father. You OK with your loved one being literally destroyed because they had the audacity to want a job that needed President Trump to nominate him for?
We should not be afraid to call out a lying hussy as a lying hussy. I’m calling it.
Howie Katz says
Bill, as an advocate for Judge Kavanaugh’s seating on the Supreme Court, I am taking strong exception to your remarks about Christine Ford. The woman is not a “lying hussy.” She has some psychological problems that lead her to believe Kavanaugh attempted to rape her. Even if it never happened, she nevertheless believes it. Ford’s scarlet letter to Sen. Dianne Feiinstein is being used by the Democrats to destroy Kavanaugh’s nomination. Your off the wall remarks do not help him.
Bill Daniels says
You know, I could almost go with your narrative that she’s a mentally ill pawn being used by the left, except for the fact that…….I watched her testify. That little girl, sing song voice? Absolute bull****. She’s a full on ***** hat wearing anti-Trumper who is only too happy to screw Trump’s nominee while at the same time, pocketing what, almost $ 1M of Gofundme slush fund cash, plus whatever else she was promised? Did she use her little girl voice when marching with her ***** hat on? I bet she didn’t.
No, I stand by my description of her, all though it wasn’t strong enough. That’s the problem with the spineless, feckless Pubs (not saying that’s you, I’m referring to the three sisters, Flake, Murkowski and Collins), and the reason I voted Trump. Somebody just needs to stand up and call it like it is. Even the rock star sexual abuse investigator they brought in to question Ford has come out and said she doesn’t believe Ford…..too many lies. The need for a front door for another exit that turns out to be a door for her tenants to use. The fear of flying…..except for every vacation she has taken. How about the professionally scrubbed social media? How did that happen? Why?
Frankly, I really don’t care if Ford actually believes her own story. The best liars often do believe themselves. It’s false, and Ford destroyed a whole family, with the help of the Dems. We shouldn’t be afraid to say that, or feel the need to tip toe around that. If she actually was some kind of victim of sexual abuse, she’s completed the cycle by abusing Kavanaugh and his family for money and leftist adulation. Sorry, zero sympathy here.
PeterD says
Howie, the only way to get to the truth is to ask the hard questions, not worry about how it will look to constituents. Judge Kavanaugh answered over 1300 such questions, most of them coming from democrat senators that were against him before he was even named, later finding cause in some of his 300 rulings and dissents. Apparently, he supports the 2nd Amendment, has certain beliefs in presidential powers, and runs contrary to liberal litmus tests on other key issues. That they sat on the letter for weeks and never let him during private meetings or previous hearings until they let it loose publicly to do the most damage.
But what about Dr. Ford? She’s been treated with kid gloves throughout the process, most of the democrats not even asking her questions of substance other than if she would like an FBI investigation, their current delay tactic of choice. Contrary to the narrative the democrats are selling, every named witness has been investigated, those Dr Ford claims were present all indicating they remember no such party or event. Yet she’s held out as the victim so no one dares ask her a hardball question on even the most basic of background information. The best we saw during the hearings, and I watched every minute, was her declaration that she was terrified of flying being the reason she couldn’t make it sooner. Fair enough until she later admitted to being quite a jet-setting world traveler.
After a short time, it was clear that she had been heavily coached and when she started to stumble, she drew from her professional knowledge to throw in a bunch of pycho-babble mumbo jumbo about memory. None of the senators were versed in the field to dispute her answers and it is common knowledge that assault victims can have spotty memories but she couldn’t even remember answers to questions from that week or since she sent the letter. So how can anyone trust her answers to 36 year old events as anything close to credible? Internet sleuths are now claiming home had the second front door long before she claimed, that being important since it was the impetus for her couples counseling leading to her finally naming the judge as her attacker. Even if that were not the case, if the attack was such a motivator, why wasn’t the door added in a previous remodel or a condition for buying the house, so many other aspects not adding up.
For all the claims about her credibility due to the polygraph test, let me remind everyone that this is in her specialized field yet she acted like she’d never heard of the device before. And unlike such tests given to job applicants or for security clearances, she was asked two questions by an operator hired as a friendly, not a battery of questions designed to obtain the truth. Let the FBI question her for real and her professional expertise may not prove as helpful even if she beats it.
So the best case scenario is that she is being used as a puppet by democrats, the with held letter, the unapproved public release of said letter, Senator Feinstein hooking her up with lawyer that’s a close friend of George Soros, and so on. The worst case is that whether it happened or not, she has come to believe it regardless of there being absolutely no evidence or witnesses to corroborate her story. These are not mutually exclusive propositions and now that the senators used Dr. Ford to push the judge’s drinking angle, they may not need her further. But the claim that she had nothing to gain from coming forward is a lot of BS; aside from the million dollars or more in donations and her free legal services, she is being courted for a book at great financial benefit, the talk show circuit, the lecture circuit, and more prestigious universities. There is even some talk about other companies hiring her in some capacity so that claim falls faar short of reality.
Howie Katz says
Pete, very well put and I agree with every word you said. Unfortunately the damage has been done and the confirmation is now awaiting a one week-long FBI investigation and there’s no telling what that will come up with. Unless the FBI investigation is definitively favorable to Kavanaugh, I’m afraid his nomination is through circling the drain and gone down the sewer.
Who knows how Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins will vote? And there’s no certainty how fickle Flake will vote in the end. As much as I want to see Kavanaugh seated on the Supreme Court, I can’t put my money on that happening.
Rand Collins says
What a bunch of garbage. I’m an immigrant, a proud Democrat, and I believe her. The president is an ignorant, barely literate bully and the Kavanaugh nomination is an indication of how far down the slope to fascism we have slid.
Howie Katz says
Rand, since you believe that we are sliding down the slope to Fascism, I suggest you return to the country of your origin before it’s too late.
DanMan says
Her attorney is on Soros’ payroll. This script being trotted again is all you need to know the dems have nothing left. Having an originalist replace Kennedy is harem to them and they must sacrifice whatever they hold dear to keep him from taking his seat. Fortunately for us nobody cares about what they hold dear so let it rip dems. Let your freak flags fly. Vote him in.
Y’all hear about Pete Flores picking up that coveted 21st seat in the Texas senate yesterday? Now if we could get a decent speaker…
don't really matter says
That’s “haram” Dan. Harem is actually a good thing, but not everybody can have one.
Joseph A Olson says
“Kavanagh Accuser is Second Generation CIA” at Robert David Steele site > PhiBetaIota(.)net
CB Ford elite Holton-Arms high school ALL IN on smear > ThreadReaderApp website
Jeff Larson says
This is why nearly every crime has a statute of limitation…even child molestation has one, although it is very long in order to allow the child to mature enough to realize they are a crime victim.
It is simply unfair to anyone innocently accused to defend charges from this far back.
Trey Rusk says
The FBI has no jurisdiction. It is not a federal case.
Greg Travis says
I don’t believe genders. I believe evidence. Show me the evidence. If you can’t, then its just an allegation and has no validity beyond the fact that it is just that–an allegation, which anyone can make about anyone else at any time. In other words–its worthless. Show me the evidence or move on.
Bob Walsh says
The Democraps are absolutely DESPERATE to stall this vote in hopes that they can get a couple of more senators on their side of the chasm. They will do ANYTHING to accomplish this goal, including the character assassination of a good man who they happen to oppose politically. The Democraps should be ashamed of themselves, but they are not, because they have no shame. They are like crack whores, they will suck you off at high noon on main street for enough money to get what they want.
JSlamen says
Sexual assault should disqualify anyone from a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. We’ve withdrawn nominees for far less serious activity (having an undocumented housekeeper, smoking marijuana in college, being incredibly unqualified). Kavanaugh’s accuser has passed a polygraph, told her husband and therapist years earlier, etc.
Your collective hatred and distrust of women and embrace of deplorable behavior from the President and SCOTUS nominees will ensure Republican political irrelevance within the next decade. Enjoy it while it lasts (and while our democracy burns).
Howie Katz says
Jeanean, honey, where do you get that I hate women? Sweetheart, I love women! Yes, I do distrust some of them. And in this case I certainly question the motives of Dianne Feinstein and Christine Ford. Now Feinstein says she does not know if Ford’s allegations are true. But you go right on believing the poor wench. Love you, babe.
Fat Albert says
Just so we’re clear here. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that a sexual assault has taken place. All we have to go on is the hazy memories of a participant in a high school kegger 36 years ago. If an allegation like this can keep a person from office, then we don’t have a democracy, or a republic, we have anarchy.
Doctor Ford sat on her story for a third of a century, more than three decades, before talking about it to her therapist. And, when she did she didn’t mention any names, and, the few facts she did mention are at variance with what she is now claiming. All that polygraph shows is that she believes what she is saying – at best. There’s a reason that polygraphs are inadmissible as evidence. By the way, it’s interesting to note that Senator Feinstein STILL has not released Doctor Ford’s letter, in spite of pressure to do so. It’s also interesting to note that this allegation was so heinous, so serious, so alarming that Senator Feinstein. . . . . said absolutely NOTHING about it for two months while Judge Kavenaugh was investigated, and interviewed, and examined, and grilled ad nauseam. Then, when it was evident that he had passed every single test and was literally as pure as the driven snow, at the last moment, DiFi whips out the letter she’s been holding and cries “wait a minute!! What about this?”
Doctor Ford can’t remember the specific day, week, month or even year that this “assault” happened. She can’t remember the house, the person who threw the party, who she went with, who was there, how she got there, how she got home. . . . . nope, all she can remember is Judge Kavenaugh. His name she’s absolutely certain of. (By the way, if you want to get a feel for what this party might have been like, there are copies of her High School yearbook running all over the internet. They read like a cross between “Animal House” and “Beverly Hills 90210”.)
As for your burning screed at the end of your post: Your collective hatred and distrust of men and conservatives and embrace of deplorable behavior from Democrats and far left liberal operatives will ensure Democrat political irrelevance within the next decade. It’s just gonna get worse for you! But our Republic will survive!
Bill Daniels says
What I saw was a complete put up job to besmirch a literal Boy Scout. The sing songy, little girl voice? “I’m terrified?” GMAFB! In a perfect world, this FBI investigation would actually INVESTIGATE, look over her carefully scrubbed social media, read her e-mails, listen to her old phone calls archived at the NSA, and check her bank accounts, and also to see where the almost $!M in Gofundme cash actually came from.
I firmly believe this woman, like the others with even more outrageous allegations like,
“choo choo, all aboard the rape train” need to have their lies exposed and need to be prosecuted and sued into oblivion. Some people assault and rob others with a gun. This woman assaulted and robbed Kavanaugh with her imagination. She’s a criminal, as are the Dem lawyers who suborned her perjury. People need to go to jail for what was done to Kavanaugh.
Finally, let’s all pray that Kavanaugh gets seated. I believe he’s a fair jurist, but he will always remember the depth of the depravity the left in trying to quash his nomination. This same tactic turned Clarence Thomas from a moderate to a full on conservative.
I look forward to decades of those deranged leftists having their noses rubbed in what they did to Kav.
Bill Daniels says
*the left used
Howie Katz says
There will now be an FBI investigation into the accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh. The FBI has only one week to complete its investigation. The bureau has set up a special task force for the investigation. It will be a Herculean task to interview all the accusers and witnesses, and where that may lead them to, in such a short time span. It is possible that the FBI investigation may yet result in Kavenaugh’s nomination going down the tubes.
Bill Daniels says
I expect more ‘victims’ to turn up. The left can’t win against Trump on policy or results, but the muh sexual predator thing seems to be working pretty well. That’s why this is gut check time for the Senate. Everyone who is not blinded by partisanship can clearly see this is a well orchestrated campaign to stop this SCOTUS nominee., but we have to appear to be sensitive to anyone who cries wolf.
Pubs of all stripes, the country club set, the RINO’s, the open borders Kochs and their ilk, war hawk neocons, the never Trumpers, and yes, Trump supporters like me need to form a coalition and force the Republicans to push through and get Kavanaugh in. Dems put their identity politics Balkanization aside when it matters, and so should Pubs.
We’ve passed dirty pool and are now down to a street fight brawl. We just need to win, and that means getting Kavanaugh in. What do you think it will be like when RBG kicks the bucket? You better get used to this, because when Trump proposes Amy Barrett to replace RBG, I predict actual mayhem in the streets.
Greg Degeyter says
The whole debacle was a disgrace. But here’s where I find fault with the Republican handling of the situation.
Where’s the investigation into the other alleged crimes? Senator Schumer was alleged to coordinate with the ones removed from protesting in the chamber. That’s conspiracy.
There’s purported pictures/video of the protesters being paid. If they were not involved in criminal activity it’s distasteful. If they were arrested then investigate who paid and what were the instructions.