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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKavanaugh is a liar. This is provable. Why not emphasize that?
(BTW, I'm not the Renate in the news. It's not even my real name, just one of my favorites.)
Trump voters are bending over backwards to excuse and minimize gang rapes and drugging women.
They are also, unbelievably, blaming the girls at the parties for not reporting the gang rapes, rather than the boys who are doing the raping. They are disgusting, they are beyond reason, and they have been beyond persuasion for a long time.
It's become all about "did the rapes happen" and "did the rapes not happen." This is kind of a distraction. What is, practically if not morally, more relevant is that he has been lying about his background. Sure, everybody makes mistakes as kids. If he had admitted to, and apologized for, mistreating women in the past, he might have been able to avoid all of this, if his denials hadn't brought women out from his past to risk their safety and to say "Oh hell no" with their specific and horrifying accusations.
But if he lied, that is absolutely, undeniably a reason not to appoint him. He's not entitled to this position. If he lies (and not just about this, but about the memos he absolutely lied about never seeing), he is not qualified for a government job and especially not for a position on the Supreme Court. If we can't persuade the unpersuadables about whether the rapes happened, it may make more sense to focus on whether he lied about his choirboy background and about those memos, because that is absolutely provable.
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(13,776 posts)Why didn't he try to stop the gang rapes, if he was so virtuous?
renate
(13,776 posts)... than that Catholic priests did?
There probably isn't a prep-school graduate in the United States who doesn't acknowledge, deep down, even if they didn't behave this way themselves, that this is entirely plausible.