# Can Democrats actually stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 216
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4301 "2018-09-27T20:55:38Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > “Ralph club” referring to having a weak stomach for spicy food is not believable. At all. Oh WOW! That’s rich! ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4302 "2018-09-27T20:56:50Z")
“What do you like to drink, Senator?” His defensiveness is making him look like he doesn’t have a grip on himself. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4303 "2018-09-27T20:57:01Z")
Man Sheldon Whitehouse is ALL bidness. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4304 "2018-09-27T20:57:02Z")
Corning trying to compare this hearing to McCarthy is total bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4305 "2018-09-27T20:57:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It would be a bullshit theory. > > Unless. > > Unless Kavanaugh and his cohort were a bunch of misogynistic shitheads who had, for some reason known only to their entitled shitty selves, decided it’d be funny to choose Renate as a victim of a slut-shaming campaign. Maybe she refused to sleep with one of them, and in response they decided to punish her through the 1980s equivalent of a 4chan troll-campaign: they put her name in the yearbook in a code that’d suggest to anyone in the know that she was a giant slut. > > I know, I know–imagining that teenaged boys could be cruel, could engage in puerile hoaxes designed to humiliate a girl, could be misogynistic shitheads, that’s a bridge to far. Crazy, I know! > > But that’s the Unless. That is, I suppose, one possible theory. Do you find Kavanaugh’s explanation to be another (possible theory)? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4306 "2018-09-27T20:57:44Z")
Only the best people. I guess the Republicans have given up on Rachel Mitchell. ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4307 "2018-09-27T20:58:01Z")
His nervous responses like “do you want to ask any more question about the f-word” make him look not only guilty, but immaturely guilty. ETA: Didn’t see this before I posted, but this is exactly what I mean: > [@you with the face](#): > > “What do you like to drink, Senator?” > > His defensiveness is making him look like he doesn’t have a grip on himself. ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4308 "2018-09-27T20:58:58Z")
[Good news](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/27/17910016/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-white-evangelicals-poll-support) for Kavanaugh fans: Forty-eight percent of white evangelicals say that embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if the allegations of sexual assault against him are true. Wonderful people. ---
**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 27, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4309 "2018-09-27T21:00:01Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > That is, I suppose, one possible theory. Do you find Kavanaugh’s explanation to be another (possible theory)? “Possible” or “plausible”? Because a “possible” explanation is that aliens edited the text. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4310 "2018-09-27T21:00:20Z")
He’s batshit. He scares me. I totally believe he was drunkingly going through school doing bad stuff. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4311 "2018-09-27T21:01:13Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > “Possible” or “plausible”? > > Because a “possible” explanation is that aliens edited the text. That strikes me as only slightly less credible than Kavanaugh’s explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4312 "2018-09-27T21:02:39Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > That strikes me as only slightly less credible than Kavanaugh’s explanation. Can someone post Kavanaugh’s explanation. I guess I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4313 "2018-09-27T21:03:35Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > Can someone post Kavanaugh’s explanation. I guess I missed it. It was that Renate was a good friend that they liked a lot, basically. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4314 "2018-09-27T21:05:03Z")
These exhaustive and tearful explanations of his weightlifting workouts and summer jobs are really getting to me. I was on the fence about him before, but now that I know that he spent a lot of time working out and mowing lawns, I find myself feeling increasingly sympathetic to him. Whatever he’s doing, it’s working. This guy has his head screwed tightly onto his shoulders, that’s for sure. He is a man of honor. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4315 "2018-09-27T21:05:50Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > It was that Renate was a good friend that they liked a lot, basically. Yeah, that wasn’t believable either. At all. He is knowingly lying about this. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4316 "2018-09-27T21:06:03Z")
I hope I’m wrong, but I have a feeling we’re going to see just how fake Ben Sasse, Bob Corker, and Jeff Flake really are, and I suppose you can add Murkowski and Collins to that list as well. Fake outrage. Fake concern. Fake love of country. This “hearing” is a sham. Nothing is going to change. They could probably have 25 more women come out and claim being raped and it wouldn’t matter, because to stop this criminal from taking his seat on the court requires that senators actually have some courage. And I just don’t see it. Even after Flake and Corker leave, they don’t want to be locked out of lucrative lobbying careers, so they’re going to be careful not to do anything that would get the doors slammed in their faces post-Senate. Their independence is a myth. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4317 "2018-09-27T21:06:15Z")
> [@sweepkick](#): > > New drinking game: take a shot every time he says “sprung on me”. It’s not as fun as Devils Triangle. Yes that is a drinking game too, as of a little after 4:30 pm today. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4318 "2018-09-27T21:06:49Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > [Good news](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/27/17910016/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-white-evangelicals-poll-support) for Kavanaugh fans: > > Forty-eight percent of white evangelicals say that embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if the allegations of sexual assault against him are true. > > Wonderful people. Evangelicals are a ‘faith’ that’s abandoned any pretense of morality or compassion or loving-kindness, and simply feels aggrieved and wants what they feel should be theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4319 "2018-09-27T21:06:56Z")
I’ve only seen the commentary, but it seems that Graham is reacting to this as much as Kavanaugh? One is curious what Graham’s college experience included… ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733/4320 "2018-09-27T21:07:24Z")
The fact that he “fully embraces” drinking beer is also very profound. His description of his yearbook is exceptionally moving as well. And the way he raises his water glass to his lips is positively Byronic. This man is a golden god. He is a glorious golden god. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733.md?page=215) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-democrats-actually-stop-the-nomination-of-brett-kavanaugh/820733.md?page=217)