Official Brett Kavanaugh confirmation thread

Does anyone else wish Trump had just nominated Amy Coney Barrett instead? I think she would have made a better justice and would have been much easier to get through the nomination process.

Laugh at iggggggy! wrote:

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Lindsay Graham: “If this is not bottom, Lord help us all.”

Poor aggrieved white guys.

Triggered!

Poor aggrieved SJW still wanting someone to write-off his student loans. Moving up at Starbucks from barista yet?

rib nerd wrote:

Does anyone else wish Trump had just nominated Amy Coney Barrett instead? I think she would have made a better justice and would have been much easier to get through the nomination process.

Yes. I have no idea why many of the Senators and the administration appear determined to stick with this guy.

The next SC justice is going to be a conservative. That is fine because elections have consequences. It doesn't have to be a perjurer as well.

he likes beer wrote:

joedirt wrote:

Am I the only one who has taught their daughters that if you are touched inappropriately you kick the guy in the nuts and get loud? Am I the only one who has had their daughters in self defense classes and has given the pepper spray?

Not going to do her any good after Brett has spiked her drink, is holding his hand over her mouth, and has a wingman to help hold her down.

Known as the "Devil's Triangle".

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Lindsay Graham: “If this is not bottom, Lord help us all.”

Trump putting in makeup and declaring that him and King Jong Un have fallen in love is far more notable, and a far deeper bottem. Lord help us all, especially those who don’t blindly follow men who wear makeup. LOL

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

In regards to Kavanaugh as a judge I have no opinion. My anger is all about the charade of the Dr. Ford allegation process and the phony games of the Democratic justice committe members. I imagine I am not alone in changing my view to vote next month from Democrat to Republican.

The number of people believing that you were going to vote Democrat is the same as the number of people who believe Kavanaugh's lies about Devil's Triangle, boofing, the Beach Week Ralph Club, and his esteem for Renate Schroeder.

Anyone who still wants Kav on the SC has lost respect for the meaning of the judicial branch, the US government, this great nation, and the troops who died to keep it free.

Look at how he acts -- anyone with a modicum of respect for all it took to form and protect this nation would want someone else up there.

Has anybody else's check from Soros foundation come in late this month?

The lease on my BMW needs paying

If someone feared for their life, feared they were going to be raped, they would not be quiet when they were in a safe place when there are witnesses around. The two activists who cornered Flake in the elevator were likely never assaulted (otherwise why would their organizations send them there when they supposedly had never told anyone of their alleged assaults?), they were just getting camera time to promote their cause, something they profit greatly from as outlined in my previous post. I view the two alleged assault victims (again nobody was ever aware of their assaults, parents included, until just now) that cornered Flake in the same light I view Ford's allegation this many years removed from the event. Unsubstantiated allegations, almost impossible to prove or disprove that serve to advance their ultimate goal of keeping Kavanaugh off of the supreme court in order to preserve Roe vs. Wade (and that they profit from as well).

It is the mission of UltraViolet, the organization they were working for, it is the goal of Ford and her beach friends [again Santa Clara county has one of the highest percentage of Democrats in the country (and they would have the knowledge to beat a lie detector and the knowledge to implant a memory using hypnosis as outlined in one of the papers that Ford was a credited resource on)], as does Boulder county, where Ramirez is from), it is the goal of the democratic senators on the SJC who vowed to fight the Kavanaugh nomination long before any of these allegations came to light, and it is the goal of Senator Feinstein and Representative Eshoo who purposely withheld the information during the closed hearings in order to release it at a time that benefitted them most politically. If you cannot see the evidence of a left wing conspiracy, you are truly blind.

Racket wrote:

Again, this is a job interview. He has to convince them to vote "Yes" for him. He hasn't done a great job so far. And while I'm sure it's certainly not fun for him and his family, it sort of comes with the territory.

There's a reason no one has filed actual criminal charges (despite the constant media whoring from Avenatti who's really starting to overstay his welcome), and unless the FBI turns up something huge then they won't. He's a free man today, and he'll be a free man on Saturday after the vote

It's an investigation into a sexual assault dishonestly used by Senator Feinstein to stall the nomination long enough so they can block it if they eventually win enough seats. The job interview was several weeks ago. If Senators had concerns about things like his judicial temperament based on hundreds of written opinions or videos of live testimony, they could have raised them, but instead they used it for partisan grandstanding (Ruth Bader Ginsburg even criticized them for this).

Amy “the dogma lives within you” Barrett is even more anaethema to socially oriented democrats.

The closing two paragraphs are pretty prescient:

Professor Adler said the attacks on the two judges were but a taste of the barrage of criticism any eventual nominee will receive.

“Both of them are incredibly smart, incredibly capable,” he said. “Neither of them will deserve what’s coming if either of them is nominated.”

Hardloper wrote:

Mo v rupp wrote:

The simple truth! In a normal world the sexual assault or the drinking or the lying wouldn’t matter any more. In this hearing he proved he is not a the right fit for this job.

Translation = "The sexual assault case turned out to be too weak so let's pivot to a different reason we don't like him"

we all knew the sexual assault case was going to be a he said/ she said scenario so of course it is going to be weak in the eyes of someone supporting BK...

however, accused of attempted rape is still on the growing list of reasons the guy shouldn't be on the supreme court...

nice try at deflection though.

Wrong. Kav said in the hearing it was the Clintons' fault. I'm going to believe the man himself

A new Harvard/Harris poll shows 60% want Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, if FBI does not find corroboration of Ford's testimony.

Harambe wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

It sets a terrible precedent that anyone can be blocked and have their lives can be ruined by an accusation with no evidence (combined with Feinstein's dirty tricks).

False accusation = libel/slander.

We've been over this many times before.

Why didn't they do this to Gorsuch?

The only precedent being set is: don't make a ton of enemies by being a crappy person for 50 years.

They didn't play dirty tricks on Gorsuch because they didn't have a midterm coming up and he didn't shift the ideology of the court. They did it to Clarence Thomas (who replaced a liberal). Any textualist is an enemy and a crappy person in the eyes of Democrats so that is a terrible precedent.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Not sure I agree.. wrote:

traditional conservative republicans always vote in mid-terms

No demographic always votes in midterms, not even seniors. The ones you know aren't representative.

It's also not just about voting, but their mood. Fired-up voters influence other voters, reluctant voters do not. That's why Hillary lost. Remember her photoshopped campaign rallies to make it look like there was a crowd?

How the h%%L would you know anything about the traditional conservative republicans I know?

I totally disagree with your premise that if BK is dropped and they move to the next in line that traditional conservative republicans will throw up their hands and say I give up on voting anymore... that's just not going to happen.

There is no practical reason for Trump and the republicans to hold on to BK so tightly... makes zero sense. They are 'cutting off their noses to spite their faces'... poor long term strategy.

Hardloper wrote:

They didn't play dirty tricks on Gorsuch because they didn't have a midterm coming up and he didn't shift the ideology of the court. They did it to Clarence Thomas (who replaced a liberal). Any textualist is an enemy and a crappy person in the eyes of Democrats so that is a terrible precedent.

Midterms are always less than 2 years away. If Gorsuch had been a bad dude they would have brought it up and you'd still be butthurt about it.

But no -- like most people he's a good guy and got confirmed with minimal drama. This isn't hard to see folks.

...the confrontation of Flake in the elevator happened after his tirade...

and no, i don't want a supreme court judge to think their is a group who is out to get him... the evil Democrats didn't do this to Gorsuch... it they were so evil and well funded why didn't they do that to him?

sorry BK shouldn't be a supreme court judge...

Harambe wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

They didn't play dirty tricks on Gorsuch because they didn't have a midterm coming up and he didn't shift the ideology of the court. They did it to Clarence Thomas (who replaced a liberal). Any textualist is an enemy and a crappy person in the eyes of Democrats so that is a terrible precedent.

Midterms are always less than 2 years away. If Gorsuch had been a bad dude they would have brought it up and you'd still be butthurt about it.

But no -- like most people he's a good guy and got confirmed with minimal drama. This isn't hard to see folks.

The Democrats' anger over the Gorusch seat is one reason they think they have the right to steal a seat with their dirty tactics.