Re: Kavanaugh's Temperament

It's just the narrative their PR team told them to use.


They need a new PR team.

I don't waste time explaining to a 3 y/o why I like this glass of scotch. I don't care if he "gets" it.

If he had been calm and collected, they were going to say he was oddly calm for a man who says he's falsely accused of rape.

They had a bull shite response no matter what he did.

GOP leadership talked about it today. Forgot which one, but one of them mentioned that the days of hearings prior to the allegations coming out was Judge Kavenaugh talking as a nominee while the response to the allegations was Brett Kavenaugh talking as a human being.

There is over a decade of work history on BK as a judge that they can go through to talk about his temperament but they didn't mention anything until he dared to get upset for his name being dragged through the mud. Evil Democrats.

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All we hear about is the "rage and belligerence" of his interview...

Are we forgetting his sadness and emotion? The tears?

His "anger" last maybe 2 or 3 sentences in his opening statement and then again during some attacks.

There's a piece of this a certain side continues to ignore. It's sad.

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This whole dog and pony show has pushed me firmly out of the middle where I had been comfortably enjoying my life of political apathy over the last decade or so and now reaching out to volunteer for the GOP.

What in the name of frick is this mindset on the left? "Oh, someone is mad that they're being accused of rape? How dare they!"

They don't even consider the possibility that the accuser is wrong or... dare I say it... A LIAR.

How have we devolved into a nation that values supposition and accusation over fact? I'm like Mugatu taking crazy pills over here. I tried to watch both testimonies as objectively as possible, and cannot comprehend how someone could even consider Ford credible after the two of them were done.

I may be projecting a bit of myself onto this thing, but here I am a considered moderate (I guess more Libertarian truth be told), who now feels enraged at the Democratic party for what they've done here. I can only imagine how Kavanaugh must feel.

Congrats Dems, you've galvanized the GOP, reinvigorated many lapsed Repubs and independents (like myself) against you, and likely negatively affected a man who will be ruling against you from a position of highest authority over the next few years.

Bang up job.

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All we hear about is the "rage and belligerence" of his interview...

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What you are actually hearing is the concern that Dems damaged a man who was a slightly right leaning jurist.
They severely wounded a nominee who'd joined Merrick Garland on OVER 95% of his opinions. Think about that.

The guy had "moderate swing-vote" written all over him. Now he'll be sitting on the SCOTUS as an unfairly scarred and potentially embittered jurist. IMO their concern is well justified.