Jonathan Carone wrote:I think conservatives are fighting this thing the wrong way. By doubting if it happened, you're invalidating thousands (millions?) of women who have experienced some type of negative sexual situation similar to what Dr. Ford is saying she experienced. On top of that, you're also freezing out people who are sympathetic to those women.
Instead, you should be asking the question if one terrible action as a drunken teenager is enough to counter decades of above-the-board, honorable service. Show all the times we've written off bad behavior as "kids making mistakes" because "they don't know any better" and then point back to his decades of service and accommodations by even those he disagrees with politically.
When you go after the accuser and try to invalidate her without even stopping to consider that this may have happened, you turn off a lot of people who otherwise would've been okay with Kavenaugh getting this seat. I had a friend who is in his late 40s, is primarily a Republican based voter, tell me this week he is voting for the Democratic governor and Democratic senator option in Tennessee this fall primarily as a protest vote against what the conservative party has become. You may disagree with his reasoning, but he's a shining example of the allies you're losing when you fight like this.
its possible to do both. which they are doing. the problem is like it usually is, only the loudest are heard. the people in charge are not invalidating anything, they are attempting to ferret out the allegation and are met with complete stalwart. what are you left to do but logically move toward invalidation. if i'm alleged to do have done something, and only an allegation is made with 0 other evidence, and after attempts to get more evidence are met with nothing, there is no way in hell i'm going to try and justify the allegation. you staunchly deny it.
meanwhile, the republican party is gaining tons of 20-30 something male voters who feel like the democrats are a party that has left them high and dry. you anecdote is met with mine where i have an office of liberal 20-30something white males who many of which are voting republican this fall.
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