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Putting Trumps little outburst yesterday for one side, the one thing that bothers me about this is that the Democrats have to a degree botched this whole saga. They held onto knowing about her until the last minute, making it look like grandstanding rather than any real concern for the victim. Her story is also full of holes and in reality if she had taken this to the police the day after the offence its unlikely any charges would have been forthcoming, and there is certainly little evidence 36 years later. Its a he said, she said case and they hardly ever reach an arrest as there really is no evidence to work with. I have no reason to believe she wasn’t assaulted, and she certainly displays some of the traits that some one who was abused tend to have, but there is no evidence yet that it was him.

Kavanaugh is a poor choice for the SC but this whole episode is making it more likely he will be confirmed unless one or two Republicans step up to the plate and vote no like their conscience is telling them, but I have no faith in that happening. The Democrats are simply playing delaying tactics, but they have forgotten what their role was during this confirmation, they needed to be asking the tough questions of him well before this accusation was made and exposing him as not being suitable. Delaying the accusation being made public for weeks was a mistake, it played into the hands of the Trumpettes as we are now seeing and it left Ford wide open to essentially become a victim again for what i fear is no real gain. The Dems need to stop criticizing Trump for what he says, but focus on what he actually does and what they would do differently, his supporters love him, they will not believe anything the Dems say so its time to ignore them and talk to the rest of the US to give them a reason first to vote and then to vote for the Dems!!