Some thoughts.
The question is: have Democrats concocted a gigantic smear campaign using several lying women who have no relationship to each other (other than knowing Kavanaugh), or are Republicans helping cover up for Kavanaugh because they want to push their preferred supreme court nominee through? (Keep in mind that we've already seen that Republicans will go to ANY length to get a seat on the Court. Keep in mind that their last nominee, Gorsuch, did not experience any such accusations. Keep in mind that even if Kavanaugh is not confirmed, someone with a similar conservative approach to jurisprudence will eventually end up on the court anyway, so there's little to be gained by the Democrats here, other than fodder for campaign ads showing Republicans with guilty consciences tripping over their d*cks. )
Dr. Ford appears to be orders of magnitude more sincere during this testimony than Kavanaugh appeared to be in his bizarrely robotic Fox News interview, in which he repeated the same lines over and over.
In denying these allegations, why does Kavanaugh insist on telling easily disproved lies as part of his response? (Not only did he not sexually assault anyone, he was a VIRGIN who always treated women with the utmost respect and NEVER drank to excess.)
Republicans always want it both ways: One woman's account was not enough, but three is "a conspiracy." Kavanaugh did not commit this terrible act, but even if he did it's no big deal and boys will be boys. They held up the Garland nomination for a year, but "procedure" requires Kavanaugh confirmed inside 8 weeks. Why do they continue to conceal documents related to Kavanaugh's enormous debts, his time as a political operative in government, and who knows what else?
One of the 65 women who signed the letter defending Kavanaugh was Renate Dolphin. Kavanaugh and several football players were listed as members of the "Renate Alumni" in the yearbook. Everyone knows what that means, and when Dolphin was made aware of this by the NYT, she was clearly upset as well. Yearbook also refers to his participation in a Devil's Triangle. But Kav was a virgin angel, right?
I know several people who went to all-boys Catholic schools in DC. They stories they told about those places were FVCKED and they required several years outside of that environment to become well-adjusted human beings.