Flagpole wrote:
Well first of all, I'm not trying to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
On any background check you have ever had for a job or otherwise, have they interviewed high school or college classmates from 30+ years ago?
I will answer your other questions and respond to your statements:
1) In high school and college, I politely said "no" to the girls/women who wanted a piece of Flagpole before getting to know me first. I also ran a lot and studied and went out with my girlfriend, now wife, to movies and such.
Bet you were turning them down right and left. Ever get your hand slapped trying to "steal second"? Ever have your wife smack your hand for grabbing her anywhere? Technically those would qualify as sexual assault.
2) I've been drunk 5 times in my life. All of them where when I was of legal drinking age (19 at the time in Ohio when I was in college). 4 of those were in college, and one accidentally when I was in my mid 20s...at a party at my brother's house and he had some beer there that had wine-level alcohol that I wasn't aware of until I had 2...that was it for me then as I have never been a big drinker. Of the 4 times in college, 2 of them were with my girlfriend, now wife, and the other two were at parties where she and I were together.
Could people (wife included) testify that you were a stumbling drunk during any of those times in college? Did you black out? Did you ever streak the quad or do a naked mile on the track? Our after conference parties in college were legendary (skinny distance runners would get incoherent). That being said, I could not testify with absolute certainty that any of them were black out drunk (which is what you are alleging Kavanaugh's classmates can). The most drunk I ever got at 22, I drank from 5PM until 4AM, but I never blacked out. I was ralphing the next day and I missed practice for one time in my college career, but I never blacked out.
3) Flagpole is a lover, not a fighter, so no fights for me. A look at my HUGE biceps usually makes people step off.
Did that ever stop you from insulting someone or standing up for yourself? Nobody said Kavanaugh hit anybody, all they said is he poured some beer on them. I was never in a fight after elementary school, mostly because I was stronger than everyone else after about my junior year of high school and people knew it. It's like Roosevelt once said, "speak softly and carry a big stick"
4) 17 year olds are often prosecuted as adults for sexual crimes. Also, Kavanaugh was in college for one of the allegations.
No 17 year old would be prosecuted as an adult for what Ford has alleged. Even if her allegations are true, the most he would have faced would have been given at the time would have been a deferred sentence for groping (something Senator Booker has already admitted to doing during his formative years) and it would have been expunged from his record as long as he kept his nose clean. Considering the statute of limitations expired on the alleged incident in 1983 (one year statute of limitations to bring charges in Maryland in 1982) this is a legally mute issue and there is no legal reason for the FBI to be investigating it. The other allegations are completely without merit.
5) Some dirt on 90% of people? Maybe, but not sexual assault and rape and drugging people. 90% of people have NOT done anything like that.
The only person alleging the drugging and raping of people is completely without merit. Nobody corroborates her story on any level. As far as the number of men who might have grabbed a girls boob or butt while they were a teen (reported or not) would be a large percentage of the male population.
6) The main reason we can't call into question his time as a judge is because the Republicans have withheld about 90% of the documents from being available to the Senate.
Have they already combed through the 50,000 pages of documents they were given? They wouldn't be doing that anyhow. As far as releasing everything, how about the complete transcripts from Ford's therapist notes? How about acknowledging that the extent of her lie detector test was the interviewer asking her two questions, not an interview with unknown questions. She was asked two prepared questions she knew in advanced about whether her written statement was authentic. The lie detector results are a joke.