"It won't matter thirty years from now."

[grumpyduck]

I just sent the following to both my senators and my representative:

This has nothing to do with Kavanaugh, or with Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative.

Imagine your son or daughter has just been sexually assaulted or bullied.

Can you imagine you, or a school counselor, or a social worker, or an emergency room doctor, telling your child "Don't worry about it, it won't matter thirty years from now?"

Somehow, I can't.

[SCantiGOP]

1. A member of my family was rape 10 years ago

It still affects her daily.
Her husband and I and others in the family know not to hold onto her if hugging, to do it loosely in case she needs to back out. She is still terrified of being held by someone against her will.

[bluescribbler]

3. My wife, may she rest in peace,

was molested by her father at least from the age of 12, possibly much earlier. It usually happened, (she told me), when he had been drinking and her parents had been fighting. When he passed away, (from cancer of the esophagus, probably due to his heavy drinking),I attended the funeral and interment mainly so I knew in my heart he was in the ground and could hurt her no more. I know that he would be a tRumper were he still walking the earth.

[matt819]

2. Makes you wonder

Well, it makes me wonder.

I wonder whether Kavanaugh's misogyny can be traced back to his failure to complete the rape he was certainly intending to commit some 30+ years ago.

Or maybe he was just born a dick.

Or, while we're speculating, maybe he and his fellow Georgetown Prep students were abused themselves. So much to speculate on, so little time.

[avebury]

4. I tend to think that if he tried it once, that is not

the only time he tried it. It makes you wonder how many more victims that there are out there.

[RVN VET71]

6. If so, one would hope they come forward.

It won't stop the nomination from going forward. Senate Republicans would all support the Son of Sam and see him onto SCOTUS. But it would be a victory of sorts just to have this lying son of a bitch publicly declared a serial misogynistic pig. His decisions could then be prefaced with: "Justice Kavanaugh, known sexual abuser and rapist, issued a dissent . . . "; or "Justice Kavanaugh, known sexual abuser and rapist, issued the majority opinion."

[ProfessorPlum]

9. probably a lot of what is hidden away in his thousands of papers the GOP won't release

[RVN VET71]

7. Born a dick

Taught misogyny as a willing and eager student.

[avebury]

5. And imagine saying that to a victime of sexual

assault and no legal recourse to opt to terminate a pregnancy.

[Jarqui]

8. "It will matter every day 50 years from now"

My doctors would tell you that has been and continues to be my experience

[calimary]

10. Oh Dear God!

I’m so sorry to hear of your agony.

I also believe it when innocent people who’ve been assaulted, hurt, abandoned, defiled, denigrated, demeaned or otherwise victimized say they still deal with it - even years later.

I totally get that. There are many things that are mighty hard to get over. This level of affront, I can only imagine, would be almost impossible to forget. Especially if there was never any justice done. You DON’T just stroll blithely away and say “meh, it wasn’t really that big a deal.”

So what we have is a Supreme Court nominee accused of clapping his hand over a young girl’s mouth to keep her screams from being heard inside a locked room with boys trying to rape her - whose prospective rulings ON said Court would, in effect, muzzle many more women seeking justice in the future.

Okay. I get it. Lordy do I get it. Here's Hoping the GOP at large gets it - in November.

[Jarqui]

11. Agony seems an unfair label that maybe overstates

It's like living a broken record that goes around and around reliving the same stuff again and again - maybe like the definition of insanity => expecting a different conclusion from re-assimilating the same events - that never comes. I don't understand it or the point of it. Many of the people who were involved are dead.

I believe in innocent until proven otherwise. But

Susan Collins: If Kavanaugh lied, that's disqualifying

That's great except he already lied about the stolen Democrat emails for example.

Leahy says Kavanaugh was 'not truthful' about Democratic documents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/leahy-says-kavanaugh-was-not-truthful-about-democratic-documents/2018/09/07/babfb4aa-b2d9-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.ba6341bdf5d2

So Collins selectively ignores Kavanaugh lying about using stolen property knowing full well it is almost impossible to prove he is lying about an event at a party 30+ years ago.