Thoughts: Assuming the Washington Post story is accurate:
- Her story is extremely credible. Hard to believe she's been running a six year hustle and it reads very true.
- In addition to running a deep six year scam we'd need to believe Ford had the incredible foresight or luck to describe Kavanaugh and Judge as being raging alcoholics at the same time as there being a 30+yr trail of evidence that Kavanaugh and Judge were indeed raging alcoholics.
- I don't trust the denials of 53 year old men on what they did as horny drunken 17 year olds. I'm way younger than 53 and was never a big drinker and am 99% certain I've never done anything like Ford accuses Kavanaugh and Judge of but there's always that 1%.
- I don't think the accusations by themselves
should derail his confirmation, unless it turns out this was a pattern. Maybe he was just being a drunken idiot and thought this was A+ trolling. It was a long time ago. BUT, he really needs to come out, admit he was often a drunken ******* and can't dispute her accusation, and apologise.
- This probably gives Red State Dems & Collins/Murkowski enough to reject him.
- He's gone from 80% -->
45% for confirmation in September.