Here are the facts as presented by Patrick Buchanan:
When she was 15 in the summer of ’82, she went to a beer party with four boys in Montgomery County, Maryland, in a home where the parents were away.
Only when Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge, laughing “maniacally,” piled on and they all tumbled off the bed, did she escape and lock herself in a bathroom as the “stumbling drunks” went downstairs. She fled the house and told no one of the alleged rape attempt.
Not until 30 years later in 2012 did Ford, now a clinical psychologist in California, relate, in a couples therapy session with her husband, what happened. She says she named Kavanaugh as her assailant, but the therapist’s notes of the session make no mention of Kavanaugh.
During the assault, says Ford, she was traumatized. “I thought he might inadvertently kill me.”
Here the story grows vague. She does not remember who drove her to the party. She does not say how much she drank. She does not remember whose house it was. She does not recall who, if anyone, drove her home. She does not recall what day it was.
She did not tell her parents, Ford says, as she did not want them to know she had been drinking. She did not tell any friend or family member of this traumatic event that has so adversely affected her life.
Said Kavanaugh in response, “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”
Mark Judge says it never happened.
Given the seriousness of the charges, Ford must be heard out. But she also needs to be cross-examined and have her story and character probed as Kavanaugh’s has been by FBI investigators as an attorney for the Ken Starr impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton, a White House aide to George Bush, a U.S. appellate judge, and a Supreme Court nominee.
During the many investigations of Kavanaugh’s background, nothing was unearthed to suggest something like this was in character.
Some 65 women who grew up in the Chevy Chase and Bethesda area and knew Kavanaugh in his high school days have come out and spoken highly of his treatment of girls and women.
Moreover, the way in which all of this arose, at five minutes to midnight in the long confirmation process, suggests that this is political hardball, if not dirt ball.
When Ford, a Democrat, sent a letter detailing her accusations against Kavanaugh to her California congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, Ford insisted that her name not be revealed as the accuser.
She seemingly sought to damage or destroy the judge’s career behind a cloak of anonymity. Eshoo sent the letter on to Sen. Diane Feinstein, who held it for two months.
Excising Ford’s name, Feinstein then sent it to the FBI, who sent it to the White House, who sent it on to the Senate to be included in the background material on the judge.
Thus, Ford’s explosive charge, along with her name, did not surface until this weekend.
What is being done here stinks. It is a transparently late hit, a kill shot to assassinate a nominee who, before the weekend, was all but certain to be confirmed and whose elevation to the Supreme Court is a result of victories in free elections by President Trump and the Republican Party.
Palpable here is the desperation of the left to derail Kavanaugh, lest his elevation to the high court imperil their agenda and the social revolution that the Warren Court and its progeny have been able to impose upon the nation.
If Kavanaugh is elevated, the judicial dictatorship of decades past, going back to the salad days of Earl Warren, William Brennan, Hugo Black and “Wild Bill” Douglas, will have reached its end. A new era will have begun.
That is what is at stake.
The Republican Senate should continue with its calendar to confirm Kavanaugh before Oct. 1, while giving Ford some way to be heard, and then Kavanaugh the right to refute.
Then let the senators decide.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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Those are the facts. Based on those facts does the Republican Party act on this and stop the vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh?
They are all reading the polls. Typical biased polls like CNN say Kavanaugh is the least popular Scotus candidate since Bork. Politicians and the media, who will be running this country if Kavanaugh fails to get the nod, believe the Democrats will cinch the mid-term elections if he is denied.
Here’s what I believe. They grossly overestimate the voting public’s involvement in this issue. The mid- term elections, like the 2016 Presidential election will be won or lost based on the economy. That was the case when old Herbert Walker Bush couldn’t lose the election bt did because of “read my lips, no new taxes”. Then he raised taxes.
Democrats are banking on suburban housewives voting Democrat because Dr. Ford raised this issue. I believe those suburban housewives who care about this Scotus issue watched the Democrats run the Kavanaugh kids out of the hearings and saw it as a public disgrace.
I believe Kavanaugh will get the nod and the Republicans will hold the House and Senate because of the job Trump is dong with the economy and foreign relations.
I predicted a Trump win in November of 2016 and I predict this. The Democrat Party relies on he media to do the heavy lifting for them, then follows the polls conducted by said media to confirm what a splendid job they, the media, are doing. Sorry, Democrats, the voters hate the media , hate Congress, and for the second election in a row you are deluding yourselves based on your cozy relationship with said media.
I agree
I totally agree. In 2012, when Romney released a list of names that he would consider to the SCOTUS, Kavanaugh was on that list. Ms Ford was silent.