# Can Democrats actually stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 4, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733 "2018-09-04T12:49:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2641 "2018-09-23T04:19:25Z")

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> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> …can you cite where Ford names Keyser as one of the witnesses? …

[YOUR CNN article](https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/kavanaugh-ford-accuser-nomination/index.html) said this:

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> Keyser is the latest person alleged to be at the party to say she has no recollection of it.

Did you not read your own source?

> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> … Yeah, I read that. But who identified Keyser as the individual?

Presumably Ford, because she’s the only one that thinks the party happened. Admittedly, CNN does a shitty job of reporting the source of the allegation.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2642 "2018-09-23T04:22:09Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> There’s literally nothing to investigate at this point…

This is just an ignorant comment.

Maybe \*you \*would just throw your hands up in the air, but luckily the FBI employs people with a little more energy.

Reminds me of a guy I used to know who thought the pyramids were built by aliens because “people weren’t capable of doing that.” No, \*he \*wasn’t capable of doing that, but the human race has an entire bell curve of competence and most of them are on the other side from him.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2643 "2018-09-23T04:44:30Z")

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Apparently the [Senate Panel has been investigating.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/22/brett-kavanaugh-senate-judiciary-committee-investigates-accusations/1401066002/)

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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2644 "2018-09-23T06:05:44Z")

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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> [YOUR CNN article](https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/09/22/politics/kavanaugh-ford-accuser-nomination/index.html) said this:
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> Did you not read your own source?

…do you understand what “alleged” means?

Who alleged she was at the party? Ford? Or the committee investigator?

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> Presumably Ford, because she’s the only one that thinks the party happened. Admittedly, CNN does a shitty job of reporting the source of the allegation.

The source of the allegation doesn’t appear to be Ford at all. It appears to be the committee staffer who identified Keyser. The committee staffer who used the very specific phrasing “ **I understand** that you have been identified as an individual who was in attendance at a party that occurred circa 1982 described in a recent Washington Post article”. That statement makes me think they don’t know if Keyser is the witness at all.

Its a fishing expedition. Part of the smear campaign. And it appears to be working. Well done you.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2645 "2018-09-23T06:12:33Z")

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> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> Wat?
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> Son, it’s not the job of the victim to gather evidence. That’s the job of the investigators.

It’s the job of the victim to provide evidence. Otherwise there is no case. No evidence, no case. Currently there is zero evidence provided by Ford who made the charge. That’s slander.

It’s the job of the judiciary committee to investigate what anything brought to them. Which wasn’t done. Deliberately.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2646 "2018-09-23T06:15:16Z")

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> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> …do you understand what “alleged” means?
> 
> Who alleged she was at the party? Ford? Or the committee investigator?
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> The source of the allegation doesn’t appear to be Ford at all. It appears to be the committee staffer who identified Keyser. The committee staffer who used the very specific phrasing “ **I understand** that you have been identified as an individual who was in attendance at a party that occurred circa 1982 described in a recent Washington Post article”. That statement makes me think they don’t know if Keyser is the witness at all.
> 
> Its a fishing expedition. Part of the smear campaign. And it appears to be working. Well done you.

From the CNN article you linked to, it sure seems like Ford’s lawyer thinks Keyser was supposedly at the party:

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> “It’s not surprising that Ms Keyser has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it,” Katz said in a statement. “It’s also unremarkable that Ms. Keyser does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago at which nothing of consequence happened to her. Dr. Ford of course will never forget this gathering because of what happened to her there.”

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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2647 "2018-09-23T06:30:43Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> From the CNN article you linked to, it sure seems like Ford’s lawyer thinks Keyser was supposedly at the party:

…that both doesn’t mean that Keyser is the “witness” in question, and all we know about the witness is that “Ford named two other teenagers who she said were at the party.” So this other witness was probably never going to be able to say anything more than what Keyser has said, which is unsurprising. Nothing is refuted.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2648 "2018-09-23T06:41:27Z")

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You don’t appear to be reading your own cite.

> [@](#):
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> White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said of those who allegedly attended the party, “One week ago, Dr. Christine Ford claimed she was assaulted at a house party attended by four others. Since then, all four of these individuals have provided statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying any knowledge of the incident or even having attended such a party.”

It’s quite straightforward. No one is backing up her story.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2649 "2018-09-23T06:49:24Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> You don’t appear to be reading your own cite. It’s quite straightforward.  
> Regards,  
> Shodan

…I read the cite.

Who identified the individuals? Were there only four individuals at the party?

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> No one is backing up her story.

Can you confirm that Keyser is the person that Ford was talking about? Can you provide a direct quote from Ford? If it was Keyser, how could Keyser back up the story if she didn’t know about the story?

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2650 "2018-09-23T07:06:04Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> It’s the job of the victim to provide evidence. Otherwise there is no case. No evidence, no case. Currently there is zero evidence provided by Ford who made the charge. That’s slander.  
> .

That’s not slander. It can be true even if the only evidence is the victim’s testimony. Testimony is, in fact, “evidence.”

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2651 "2018-09-23T07:17:12Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> It’s the job of the victim to provide evidence.

Utterly wrong.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2652 "2018-09-23T07:54:04Z")

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> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> …I read the cite.
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> Who identified the individuals? Were there only four individuals at the party?
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> Can you confirm that Keyser is the person that Ford was talking about? Can you provide a direct quote from Ford? If it was Keyser, how could Keyser back up the story if she didn’t know about the story?

> [@](#):
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> CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.

[Cite](http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=565).

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2653 "2018-09-23T07:58:55Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> [Cite](http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=565).
> 
> Regards,  
> Shodan

…concession accepted.

Anyone else want to have a go at answering my questions?

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2654 "2018-09-23T09:02:59Z")

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And now comes [this puff piece](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.61a5a119dec4) from the _Washington Post_, seeking to persuade readers that Christine Blasey Ford was so traumatized by her alleged groping at the age of 15 that after high school some 2 or 3 years later, she left her former life of private schools, country clubs and moneyed privilege in the D.C. area and “_never moved back_,” opting instead to flee 3,000 miles away to California (after first obtaining her undergraduate degree in North Carolina) and start wearing blue jeans and surfing…oh, and also to pick up her Masters and her Ph.D at notable California universities.

Yes, it’s true. She fled all the way to North Carolina and then to California, forever forsaking life as she knew it in Maryland, because a stumbling drunk kid of 17 groped her over her clothes at a party when she was 15.

And now, apparently, even California may not be far enough away, as she’s been researching such far away places as New Zealand in which to relocate her family in the event Kavanaugh makes it onto the Supreme Court.

Surprisingly, the article includes mention of her having belonged to quite a party girl social circle during her tender years at school in Maryland.

> [@](#):
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> \*Like many affluent families in the area, the Blaseys sent their children to single-gender private schools. For Ford, that meant six years at Holton-Arms, where students wore blue plaid skirts they would try to persuade their mothers to hem shorter. Her classmates included the daughters of the king of Jordan and members of the J.W. Marriott clan.
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> Coach purses were the it-bag to carry, and at lunch, the girls were allowed to sit outside, tanning their legs and drinking Tab.
> 
> \<snip\>
> 
> Ford’s inner circle was, “How do you say this? The pretty, popular girls,” explained Andrea Evers, a close friend. “It wasn’t like we were a bunch of vapid preppies, but God, we were preppy then.”
> 
> Weekends were spent shopping at the White Flint mall, flashing fake IDs at Georgetown’s Third Edition club — the drinking age was 18 then — or flocking to the house of whoever’s parents were out of town to drink six-packs of Hamm’s or Schaefer.
> 
> Every summer, the “Holton girls” would pack into a rented house for Beach Week, an annual bacchanal of high-schoolers from around the region. The prep schools that formed Ford’s overlapping social circles usually gathered at a Delaware beach town each year. Kavanaugh, in his senior-year yearbook, cited his own membership in the “Beach Week Ralph Club.”
> 
> Like Kavanaugh, Ford was part of that alcohol-fueled culture. But those unchaperoned parties, at beach rentals and Bethesda basements alike, frequently left the girls feeling embattled.
> 
> “The boys were pretty brutal,” Evers said. “They would do what they could to get you drunk, and do whatever they would try to do to you.”\*

And then there’s this little tidbit:

> [@](#):
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> _On graduation day, she wore the required white dress and carried red roses. She told no one._

I’m sorry, but give me a friggin’ break! Ford goes to a school where the girls are trying to make themselves more desirable to boys by having their skirts hemmed shorter, using fake I.D.s, and boozing it up at the homes of whoever’s parents were out of town. And then they would then also rent houses for alcohol-fueled, unchaperoned, “bacchanals” they called "Beach Week,’ and would apparently cavort in other houses and in friends’ basements in a similar manner.

The boys were a caution, however, trying to get the girls drunk and to do whatever they could manage to do with them. (Who’da thunk that, right?)

And yet here we have young Christine Blasey, a member of this group of sneaky, misbehaving party girls, not only stone sober and behaving innocently at a party of teenagers involving swimming, swim suits and alcohol, and aware of the boys’ history of trying for what they could get from the girls, so traumatized by this one event that her entire life has been altered forevermore (despite the fact she bravely held her head high, wore white and carried red roses at her high school graduation, thereby professing the fact, presumedly, that she still qualified as virginal despite the groping she allegedly suffered two or three years before).

Good friggin’ grief!

The authors of that article should be shot! First, they try to portray Ford’s very common move to an out-of-state school in order to pursue her Masters and Ph.D as an emotional flight from the memory of what happened that fateful night, and then they completely undercut the narrative of her as a sober, naive, innocent schoolgirl totally unprepared for the possibility that drunken boys might try to have their way with her by outlining the fact that such scenarios were commonplace amongst her social circle.

I’m more dubious now of both her story and of her alleged trauma than I was before reading that silly article. It certainly did her no favors.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2655 "2018-09-23T09:17:19Z")

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so that’s who you want on the Supreme Court? Someone with a history of excessive drinking, excessive partying, and believable groping accusations?

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2656 "2018-09-23T09:27:23Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> Surprisingly, the article includes mention of her having belonged to quite a party girl social circle during her tender years at school in Maryland.

This sounds an awful lot like you’re blaming the victim. Like she had it coming.

That’s an utterly disgusting and reprehensible attitude, and I hope you’re ashamed of it.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2657 "2018-09-23T09:31:04Z")

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> [@Channing Idaho Banks](#):
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> so that’s who you want on the Supreme Court? Someone with a history of excessive drinking, excessive partying, and believable groping accusation.

I would have no trouble endorsing Kavanaugh or anyone else who misbehaved as a juvenile of 17, but has led an exemplary life since, for anything.

I should add that I’m not convinced Kavanaugh is guilty, but in lieu of the way he’s lived his life since, I’d have no problem with it if he were.

> [@Evil Economist](#):
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> This sounds an awful lot like you’re blaming the victim. Like she had it coming.
> 
> That’s an utterly disgusting and reprehensible attitude, and I hope you’re ashamed of it.

No, I’m not ashamed for what you think my comments sound like.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2658 "2018-09-23T09:39:35Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> No, I’m not ashamed for what you think my comments sound like.

I wasn’t hoping for my sake, I was hoping for your sake.

I’d advise you to keep that disgusting opinion safely on anonymous message boards. People in real life might react with shocked disgust, and they would be right to do so.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2659 "2018-09-23T09:57:34Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> And now comes [this puff piece](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.61a5a119dec4) from the _Washington Post_, seeking to persuade readers that Christine Blasey Ford was so traumatized by her alleged groping at the age of 15 that after high school some 2 or 3 years later, she left her former life of private schools, country clubs and moneyed privilege in the D.C. area and “_never moved back_,” opting instead to flee 3,000 miles away to California (after first obtaining her undergraduate degree in North Carolina) and start wearing blue jeans and surfing…oh, and also to pick up her Masters and her Ph.D at notable California universities.
> 
> Yes, it’s true. She fled all the way to North Carolina and then to California, forever forsaking life as she knew it in Maryland, because a stumbling drunk kid of 17 groped her over her clothes at a party when she was 15.
> 
> And now, apparently, even California may not be far enough away, as she’s been researching such far away places as New Zealand in which to relocate her family in the event Kavanaugh makes it onto the Supreme Court.
> 
> Surprisingly, the article includes mention of her having belonged to quite a party girl social circle during her tender years at school in Maryland.
> 
> And then there’s this little tidbit:
> 
> I’m sorry, but give me a friggin’ break! Ford goes to a school where the girls are trying to make themselves more desirable to boys by having their skirts hemmed shorter, using fake I.D.s, and boozing it up at the homes of whoever’s parents were out of town. And then they would then also rent houses for alcohol-fueled, unchaperoned, “bacchanals” they called "Beach Week,’ and would apparently cavort in other houses and in friends’ basements in a similar manner.
> 
> The boys were a caution, however, trying to get the girls drunk and to do whatever they could manage to do with them. (Who’da thunk that, right?)
> 
> And yet here we have young Christine Blasey, a member of this group of sneaky, misbehaving party girls, not only stone sober and behaving innocently at a party of teenagers involving swimming, swim suits and alcohol, and aware of the boys’ history of trying for what they could get from the girls, so traumatized by this one event that her entire life has been altered forevermore (despite the fact she bravely held her head high, wore white and carried red roses at her high school graduation, thereby professing the fact, presumedly, that she still qualified as virginal despite the groping she allegedly suffered two or three years before).
> 
> Good friggin’ grief!
> 
> The authors of that article should be shot! First, they try to portray Ford’s very common move to an out-of-state school in order to pursue her Masters and Ph.D as an emotional flight from the memory of what happened that fateful night, and then they completely undercut the narrative of her as a sober, naive, innocent schoolgirl totally unprepared for the possibility that drunken boys might try to have their way with her by outlining the fact that such scenarios were commonplace amongst her social circle.
> 
> I’m more dubious now of both her story and of her alleged trauma than I was before reading that silly article. It certainly did her no favors.

Dude, she could have sexually serviced every schoolboy in the county and their Dads and it still would not excuse what she claims.

Her allegations are dubious on their own merits, no need to add speculation.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/2660 "2018-09-23T10:16:44Z")

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> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> I wasn’t hoping for my sake, I was hoping for your sake.
> 
> I’d advise you to keep that disgusting opinion safely on anonymous message boards. People in real life might react with shocked disgust, and they would be right to do so.

Is my opinion truly disgusting, or do you perhaps have a bias which leads you to an interpretation of it that you find disgusting?

Here, I’ll spell it out: In the event Ford is telling the truth, I do not believe she asked for it.

I do, however, question her sobriety (and therefore her memory). And in light of the goings-on within her social circle, I question the validity of her alleged trauma, especially since it seems only to have been realized years after the fact:

> [@](#):
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> \*Years later, after going through psychotherapy, Ford said, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with lasting impact on her life.
> 
> “I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years,” she said. She struggled academically and socially, she said, and was unable to have healthy relationships with men.\*

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