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Christine Blasey Ford … It Makes Perfect Sense
Pretend you are a Democrat strategist. In 2018 that means that by definition you are a leftist. Your overarching mission is to shepherd the American evolution to a utopian collectivist state. As a prerequisite, the appeal of liberal democracy must first be weakened. Your job is to devise a strategy to undermine popular support for the United States Constitution.
Today, in the wake of the botched transformation of America (promised a decade ago), the enlightened social progress of the past century is suddenly imperiled. The health of the Living Constitution is under threat by a Supreme Court nominee — the second in two years — who respects that old, faded parchment written by white slaveholders over a hundred years ago.
Your mission as a Democrat strategist would be to impugn the reputation of the Supreme Court nominee in order to either prevent him from being seated, or failing that, discrediting him as an irreparable stain on the United States Supreme Court. The Senate confirmation hearings demonstrated the fervor with which Democrats at the highest level have embraced this mission. And now, the final act in this drama is being unveiled.
#MeTooism provides the perfect weapon. Not only does this entitle the accuser to bypass normal conventions of “innocent until at least a smidgen of evidence suggesting the possibility that the accused might be proven guilty” before entertaining a serious discussion of the matter; the mere accusation counteracts (some would say negates) endless public testimony of the nominee’s personal character, an impressive body of work, and six FBI investigations. This brilliant strategy has reduced the seating of a Supreme Court Justice to a “he said, she said” debate.
This strategy would take a bit of work to implement, but not much, really. You’d scour your database of Democrat donors and lefty loyalists to reveal a list of women who may have known the nominee at some point in their lives, particularly a point in time before the nominee was a public figure. Bingo! Christine Blasey Ford. Then you’d create a story that is damning without sacrificing all plausibility (in a generic sense). Almost by definition, this would involve teenagers, a party, and alcohol. However, you’d take care that the parameters of the story would be vague enough that it couldn’t be refuted by the logic of logistics, such as “where” and “when” — it would be pure “he said, she said,” and we know which of those two has the upper hand in 2018.
Honestly, none of has any way of knowing if Christine Blasey Ford’s story really happened. And, yet, honestly, everyone knows that the story is a lie.
Published in General
It’s pathetic.
(1) This also provides cover for red-state Senate Democrats to vote “no”.
(2) They say a perfect excuse is one that works over and over again. Perhaps this is the perfect smear. It might plausibly be applied to any male, but it takes a compliant media.
(3) Makes you rethink that whole Roy Moore thing. What did he do wrong? Sure he’d take girls half his age, but legal, to the malt shop on a date. But some other unprovable accusations get thrown in and suddenly 2017 thinks “rural Alabama in the 70’s” is depraved.
(4) Meanwhile Keith “Ike Turner” Ellison is #2 in the Democrat party and likely Minnesota’s next attorney general and MSM is silent.
They’re not only silent, either. They smeared and practically threw Ellison’s accuser out of the party. Here is what she said:
“I’ve been smeared, threatened, isolated from my own party,” Monahan tweeted. “I provided medical records from 2017, stating on two different Dr. Visits, I told them about the abuse and who did it. My therapist released records stating I have been dealing and healing from the abuse.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/407195-ellison-accuser-dems-smeared-threatened-isolated-me
Now the charade is starting to fall apart because Grassley called her bluff. She won’t appear before the committee because she knows that her “story” will fall apart under cross examination. The Dems are already laying down a smoke screen about FBI investigations and blaming the victim to allow this whole thing to collapse.
Am reminded reading this post of a great Twitter thread by @ThomasHCrown on Antonin Scalia and the Confrontation Clause. Couple of standouts in the thread:
Al Gore crazed sex poodle
Kavanaugh Accuser’s Lawyer Longtime Dem Donor, Defended Clinton, Franken
Dem playbook: Believe all women … unless a dem is involved … then it is a trailer park bimbo
What do feminists and others on the left always say?
“Believe the woman.”
Fine. Are we then to ignore the over 200 women who were former classmates or dated Kavanaugh over the years, who signed a letter stating Kavanaugh was a decent, honest man who never mistreated any of them in the slightest way? We have to believe one woman, but ignore 200 other women?
People like Harvey Weinstein have a pattern of misbehavior, one shown by the sheer number of women who came forward. With Kavanaugh, we have just the opposite – a pattern of decent behavior. I guess with liberals, you have believe the bad but not the good . . .
I know this is really mean, but to rewrite James Carville’s famous statement:
So true! If Anita Hill can make a career out of being “the wronged woman”, so can Ford.
Looks like the Dems failed to line up a sufficiently lucrative book deal for Ford, so she’s bailing.
Will anyone in the media point out that it was the Dems who dragged Ford through the mud?
Oh, the humanity!
You gotta be kidding! Why would they lionize Anita Hill with victim virtuehood and book deals, but not Ford?
Oh, I forgot – she’s white . . .
but if it succeeds…she’s “The Woman Who Saved Roe v. Wade”
and Harry Reid would smile at the cunning
The #MeToo movement is objectively Stalinist.
Now that they’ve turned it into an obvious political tool, I will no longer give any credence to any claim that can’t be proven in a court of law. That’s what they’ve accomplished for women.
Oh look rank conspiracy mongering on the Main Feed.
Gonna have to be more specific than that.
My Life and Times as a Political Pawn of the Left by Christine Blasey Ford
Yes, why wouldn’t she get a lucrative book deal with what really happened here?
Look how cute he was!
Now NBC is running with a story that someone at the school “heard something about the Kavanaugh incident”
said someone has no first hand information and wiped off their social media.
So…an incident the victim held in secret someone else heard about.
She’s a “performing arts curator”
Crapweasels…all of them
Her GoFundMe page is doing well. There are more GoFundMe pages but this is the main one.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/407428-gofundme-campaign-raises-over-90k-to-cover-kavanaugh-accusers
Apparently it is working. Kavanaugh’s popularity is declining–down to 31%. Of course, it is a wonder that many Americans know the name of even one Supreme Court justice.
“In a Democratcy the voters get what they deserve, good and hard.”
I understand in 2018 that we are at war (Flight 93!) and facts do not matter, but to the lame folks that still care, please note that the foreclosure story is a nothing-burger: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-brett-kavanaughs-mother-didnt-foreclose-on-his-accusers-parents
With that out of the way, I cannot wait to see Kavanaugh voted in!
You can find drivel like this on sites like the dailykos, only if you change a few words: “Pretend you are a Republican strategist. In 2018 that means that by definition you are a reactionary traditionalist. Your overarching mission is to shepherd the American evolution to a society straight out of the Handmaid’s Tale.”
It might behoove folks to actually be friends with (as Thomas Sowell might say) flesh-and-blood human beings with different political views and realize that not everyone is a caricature.
All said, let’s go Kavanaugh!
It doesn’t say she “foreclosed” on them. It says she made a ruling in the case. A foreclosure, losing your house, must be so traumatic that any judge involved would stick in your memory and become associated with it.
Did you read the article? Try again.
Be friends with Democrat strategists?
From the article:
A review of the filings shows that Judge Kavanaugh signed an order in 1997 dismissing the foreclosure after the Blaseys refinanced their home. The 10th docket reads, “ORDER OF COURT (KAVANAUGH, J./RICE, M.) THAT THE VOLUNTARY MOTION TO DISMISS IS HEREBY GRANTED WITH PREJUDICE AND THAT THE BOND FILED BY HARRY J. KELLY AS TRUSTEE SHALL BE RELEASED AND RETURNED FILED.”
More:
The records show Martha Kavanaugh was one of several judges involved in the case. The records show she made no ruling pertaining to a seizure of the Blasleys’ home. The records also show that her involvement in the case was minimal. Basically, she dismissed it, and that’s it.
She even dismissed the foreclosure “with prejudice,” meaning that, on the merits, the case was over and could not be refiled on the same grounds. Also, in case you were wondering, the Blaseys still retain ownership of the home, according to the most current data available from the state of Maryland’s Department of Assessment and Taxation. So, no, it does not appear that they lost their home.
Me: lol
Remember though, we gotta do whatever it takes to own the libs!