Opinion: Christine Blasey Ford Has No Reason To Lie. Brett Kavanaugh Has Many.

[BeckyDem]

Excellent.

09/19/2018 06:47 pm ET


Richard North Patterson
Columnist


Why does Christine Blasey Ford want the FBI to investigate her charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee?

Because Blasey knows that she’s telling the truth, and knows what happened to Anita Hill. Just as she and Kavanaugh both know that Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court because, in all probability, he lied ― and was duly rewarded by the forces of patriarchy and partisan politics. Only one of them has an incentive to lie.

That person is not Blasey (who goes by Christine Blasey professionally). Like Anita Hill, who was called “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty” after she accused Thomas of sexual harassment, she faces an onslaught of opprobrium which will redefine her life. White male Republicans on the judiciary committee will pick apart every gap in memory to cast her as a mendacious partisan bent on destroying Kavanaugh. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who disdainfully called her “mixed up,” will reprise his contemptuous mistreatment of Hill. Conservative talking heads will insist that she must “prove” her charges. Fixated on cementing the high court’s activist majority, all will ignore everything we’ve learned about the psychological and practical barriers facing a solitary woman subjected to sexual assault.

Applying logic to the charges themselves, there is a very good chance that Blasey’s appalling account is accurate; virtually no chance that it is utterly fabricated. We know how difficult it is for a teenage girl now — and even more so in the 1980s — to charge a man with sexual assault. The “rewards” of reprising such a trauma include shame, shaming, ostracism and self-blame. Faced with inevitable misery, countless girls and women have chosen to choke down their suffering at whatever internal cost.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-brett-kavanaugh-republican-party_us_5ba2b376e4b0375f8f99b2b5

[live2011]

1. Things have changed. Kavanaugh LIED

It is no longer HE SAID;SHE SAID
Now it’s HE SAID;THEY SAID
He said, “I wasn’t at that party.”
They said, “Oh, yes. He was there.”

If others now come forward that Kavanaugh was at that party he claimed he was not at, Kavanaugh is Toast.