Kavanaugh: Hope for the best but prepare for the worst

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Twitchy: "‘Aaaaaaaand SCENE’! Is THIS why Dianne Feinstein’s been so cagey about Christine Blasey Ford?; UPDATED" : . . . "Fair enough. But we’re not terribly inclined to give Dianne Feinstein the benefit of the doubt on anything. She certainly hasn’t extended that courtesy to Brett Kavanaugh." . . .

‘I do not recall the party’: Witness to alleged Kavanaugh incident sends statement to Judiciary Committee

Why Mark Judge’s Statement on the Kavanaugh-Ford Situation Is Ultimately Meaningless  . . . "All of this is to say that if Judge, the named lone witness to an alleged assault from decades ago, thinks he can just say he doesn’t want to testify and Congress will be satisfied he may need to think again." . . .

The Differences in Late Accusations Against Kavanaugh and Thomas  . . . "The late-breaking allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in some ways mirrors the explosive claims preceding Justice Clarence Thomas’ confirmation in 1991, legal experts say. At the same time, the two matters are strikingly different.
“ 'Democrats are hoping to return to a time of leveling attacks at the nominee, not for discussion of their judicial approach, but last-minute allegations and character assassination,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network." . . .

You can’t convict a person for being just the type.  . . . "That things like what is described in Ford’s letter “happened all the time” is, I’m sure, true. That it’s “all too consistent with stories” that people heard and their lived experience is also, I’m sure, true. But the questions is whether Brett Kavanaugh did something like this. Evidence that stuff like what he’s accused of happened to many people, or that prep-school guys like him always get away with things like this, is not evidence against Brett Kavanaugh. " . . .

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Calls Kavanaugh Hearings a ‘Highly Partisan Show’

Grassley Suggests No Last-Minute Hearing Without Accuser Testimony  . . . "There is a growing possibility Ms. Blasey-Ford, with the help of like-minded resistance members, manufactured the accusation under the auspices of resisting a supreme court nomination “by any means necessary”. One theory surrounds one of Judge Kavanaugh’s friends, Mark Judge, who wrote a book describing his abuse of alcohol going back to High School.  It is possible from that tenuous connection Ms. Blasey-Ford and her allies then constructed a story based loosely on details outlined in the book.

"Under this scenario, the entire accusation becomes a professional Democrat political ploy using the “MeToo movement” to shield the accuser from scrutiny of her claims. Given the toxic political climate of the current resistance movement; and with knowledge of how far the DNC apparatus is willing to go in constructing lies for political benefit; there is just as much likelihood this entire episode is a political fabrication." . . .