"If truth were the only goal, there would be no clock"...and nothing would ever get done. Truth is not the goal in politics. The goal is to either beat your opponent into submission,(they call it compromise), or, as is the case here, just bully your way to victory. What's odd is one would think those in the majority would always have the upper hand to win the bully fight. This does of course assume that those with the upper hand have a spine. Democrats have a spine when in the majority, republicans do not.
I guess the bottom line is that although Kavanaugh was caught in several lies in both sessions he testified in (See Patrick Leahy's closing comments Friday pm) lying is not disqualifying, from at least a White Male, Republican point of view, and that's really all that matters. The most misleading lie Kavanaugh told (repeatedly, as it were) was that the others, even Leland Keyser, Ford's friend, say "It didn't Happen,"* Of course that is not at all what the others said. But who cares! The important thing is to get this over with. Let's just ignore what the others really said, which was that they don't recall the party, or the don't recall the events described by Ford, and Keyser also added that she believes her friend. The only one who is saying , "it didn't happen," is Kavanaugh! Kavanaugh's lies will be ignored by Republicans. The White house will review the FBI report , "to make sure it is fair, thorough, and limited in scope" before passing it on to the committee. It will be smooth sailing from their to the Supreme Court. *It's impossible to believe that someone with legal training and who will shortly be sitting on the Supreme court doesn't understand the difference between, "it didn't happen'" and, "I don't recall." Therefore it's equally impossible to think Kavanaugh wasn't fully conscious of the misleading nature of the lie he told repeatedly. Clearly his intention was to mislead. He would know, of course, that the Republican's on the committee, and the Bimbo's at Fox News, are not going to call him on this, and the thirty million plus Trump supporters glued to their smart TVs, in between runs for more popcorn, are not going to bother to track down what was actually said. It would seem one can say anything in politics, no matter how untrue, and get away with it, if you say it loudly with indignation, and have at least one more vote on your side. ..... "When unsure of your facts state them loudly." -- Mark Twain.
Kavanaugh’s Yale Friend: He Was an ‘Aggressive,’ ‘Belligerent’ Drunk Charles Ludington, a college friend of embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, told The Washington Post on Sunday that he will deliver a statement to the FBI on Monday detailing Kavanaugh’s “belligerent and aggressive” drunken conduct while the pair were at Yale. Ludington, now an associate professor at North Carolina State University, provided a copy of his statement to the Post, which includes a story of Kavanaugh prompting a fight that caused one of their mutual friends to be arrested. “When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive,” the statement reads. “On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.” Ludington’s allegations appear to contradict Kavanaugh’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which he denied allegations that he was belligerently drunk in high school or college.
Not sure if this is true, but in a related story, I had a friend in college who was not a big guy but would get drunk and had a habit of throwing full cups of beer in guys faces. Was rather funny at the time. I had another friend who got in a fight at a party and literally got a chunk of his ear bit off. This was a couple of years before the infamous Tyson/Holyfield fight. Crazy times!
The sight of a man fighting back is scary to you feminized men. Clarence Thomas fought back hard too. That would be Justice Clarence Thomas. Not every man sits down when he pees as you guys do.
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.” -James Crumley
Most college kids get sloppy drunk at least once, a few a half dozen times, but always unintentionally. A small minority make a habit of it. They drink for the purpose of getting drunk. Question their judgement. They lack self-discipline.
We used to call this Worshiping the Porcelain God in college. I think I saw Christine Ford at a couple parties. Ask her.