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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 08:35 PM Sep 2018

Most people running for office know that opposition research is coming.

That's why a lot of good people don't run for office. They don't want their life history to be reviewed by the world.

I don't think a person who has engaged in criminal behavior and gotten away with it is very smart if they think they can run for public office and get away with it forever. The truth will come out.

Brett Kavanaugh engaged in criminal behavior and got away with it. He believed that he had silenced his victim and he knew that his buddy would lie for him.

But he was wrong. The right thing for him to do - if he had any integrity - would be to admit what he did, withdraw from the confirmation process, turn himself over to the authorities, and beg for forgiveness from his victims.

But he has no integrity, just a lust for power.

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