9/20/2018 - Derek Hunter Townhall.com
Forget a wounded
animal, there is nothing more desperate and vicious than a Democrat on the
verge of losing a political battle. So when California Senator Dianne Feinstein
released a vague statement implying some sort of criminal activity in Judge
Brett Kavanaugh’s past, it was not surprising. Republicans did what they always
do – they tried to make nice. But this isn’t your father’s Democratic Party,
appeasement isn’t possible when they will only accept capitulation. How do you
find common ground with someone who wants to destroy you? Do you offer to be
half destroyed? One-quarter? No. In fact, Hell no. It’s time for Republicans to
grow a pair and govern like they won.
As I’ve written before,
there
is no bottom for the Democrats to hit. Feinstein, being challenged from her left in her
reelection bid, lowered the “Democrat dirty tricks” bar to the point that you’d
need a shovel to get under it. But mark my words, they are not done yet.
One thing that
differentiates Democrats from Republicans is Democrats will do anything to
advance their agenda, whereas Republicans might hold a vote. With Obamacare,
many Democrats knew they were committing political suicide, but they wanted to
advance the ball toward socialized medicine so desperately that dozens did it
anyway. They were slaughtered at the polls. After campaigning for years on it,
Republicans held a vote on repeal. After months of trying to figure out how to
do it and what to do next, the half-measure failed because Republicans were
afraid to do what they were elected to do.
Now comes the most
important battle any Republican senator will cast a vote on, the main reason to
have voted for a Republican senator, and they’re risking caving to the left yet
again.
I don’t know what
happened at a lame party 36ish years ago (the story is only 6 people were
there), but neither, apparently, does the accuser. Somehow she remembers Judge
Brett Kavanaugh allegedly attacking her, something so out of character for him
that not one other single person has ever experienced anything remotely
similar, but she can’t remember where it happened or even the year. She knows
the county, that just so happens to be the county they both lived in. It’s a
story that would be tossed out of any court.
So, when I saw so
many elected officials take her story seriously when it first emerged, I was
certain Republicans were going to cave again.
The narrative was
perfectly constructed – a reluctant witness who just wanted her story to be
heard standing up to a big, bad…nerd. Yeah, I just couldn’t really buy it from
the start.
That the story didn’t
come out until the Democrats had no cards left to play told me all I needed to
know.
I don’t know what
happened to Christine Blasey Ford when she was a kid, but reading her account
as it evolved, I’m not sure she does either. I do know I don’t believe her
allegations against Kavanaugh.
It’s unpopular, even
dangerous, to say that (politicians always walk a delicate line) especially in
the age of #MeToo, but nothing about her story makes any sense.
At 15, your world is
very small. You can’t drive, you presumably have a curfew, and you spend most
of your time with friends. If she were attacked in a home with only 6 people in
it, the likelihood of no one noticing her shattered state afterwards is
minimal, loud music or not.
Plus, and this is very
odd, she claims to be unable to recall the only 2 details Kavanaugh could use
to clear his name – the where and when. If we knew where we could find out who
owned the house and whether or not any such event took place there or if they
had kids who might’ve had teens over drinking when adults weren’t home. If we
knew when we might be able to find out if the Kavanaugh family were on vacation
at that time, or he were somewhere else. Those are the only ways he could clear
his name and they’re missing, she doesn’t even remember the year.
More curious is how
this was all handled by Ford as an adult. In addition to not telling anyone at
the time, or for decades, the original story was she only told her therapist,
who claimed there were 4 boys in the room during the attack, which is now down
to 2. The other, along with Kavanaugh, both say it didn’t happen and they were
never at any such party.
Then she allegedly told
a friend she had her own #MeToo story a while ago. How do you forget telling a
friend, even years later, till people wondered why she never told anyone?
But the weirdest part
is how her Internet footprint was scrubbed, she hired a liberal DC attorney to
represent her, and allegedly took a polygraph test. She did all of these things
before Feinstein released a vague statement about an anonymous allegation
against Kavanaugh she’d held back for 6 weeks because the accuser didn’t want
to be identified.
If she had no intention
of coming forward, why prepare for coming forward by taking a lie detector test
in August? If Feinstein wanted to respect her wishes, why release any statement
at all? If she were going to “betray” the promise of anonymity, why not do it
earlier?
Nothing else stuck,
Kavanaugh withstood everything Democrats threw at him during his hearing. They
were desperate and about to lose. And Democrats can’t lose when it comes to the
Supreme Court – the courts are how they advance their agenda these days. They
rarely pass legislation, they sue and have the courts declare parts of their
agenda to be so, to be “rights.” If they lose the courts they have to try to
convince voters, to sell their unpopular ideas AND, worst of all, make sure
they’re actually constitutional. That terrifies them.
Democrats demanded Ford
be allowed to testify, and Ford’s lawyer said she was ready to do so.
Republicans agreed almost immediately, delaying Thursday’s committee vote to
hear from the accused and the accuser on Monday.
After getting
everything they wanted, Democrats and Ford then moved the goalposts, demanding
an FBI investigation before anyone testifies. But the FBI doesn’t investigate
these sorts of allegations. That didn’t matter, they wanted it and Ford said
she wouldn’t testify until she got what Democrats started demanding first,
conveniently.
Thankfully, Republicans
appear to have had enough of this circus. Even fence-sitting Republicans have
said if Ford refuses to tell her story at a hearing on Monday that the
committee should move to vote the nomination forward.
Giving Democrats all
they want is never enough, as soon as they and Ford got it they immediately
wanted more.
This is the lowest of
the low, at least so far. There are still 5 more days for the left to cook up
something else. But an allegation almost 40 years old where the only 2 aspects
that could be used to disprove it – the where and when – are not known should
never, ever be acceptable in politics or anywhere else, no matter how serious
the charge. If nothing else, Republicans need to stand up to this, strongly, to
make sure it doesn’t become the new normal.
I detail how liberals
use emotion to manipulate the public in cases like this in my book, “Outrage,
INC.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.” I
discussed the book with Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, on
CSPAN’s Book TV. You
can watch the discussion here. And subscribe
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hear daily dissections of the news, how the left is doing whatever it takes to
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