Why Judge Kavanaugh Deservers Confirmation

Until the last moment the Judge was a shoe-in for confirmation to the supreme court.  He had had his background checked.  His life off the bench had been found to be exemplary.  His rulings as a judge in lower courts had been found to be well thought out and for the most part sustainable.  A better candidate would have been hard to find, or so you'd think.

And then it happened.  Charges were brought forth by a lady who claimed that when she was a high school student, she had been grappled, in a bed, by the Judge when he was a prep school student. She suggests that there might have been serious consequences if another student hadn't jumped on them, causing them all to fall off the bed.  That's when she jumped up and ran out of the room.

More recently another lady has come forth with the claim that, as a college student, the judge had pushed his penis up against her face.  Both ladies' charges were vehemently denied by Judge Kavanaugh.

There are a number of serious problem with these allegations.  First and foremost is that there is no way of proving them.  They are no more, or less, than allegations.

But that's not the most troubling thing about them.  The charges were brought to Sen. Diane Feinstein several months earlier.  She just sat on them for several months.  This made it impossible to investigate them in a timely fashion.

Before getting to the bottom line, a few more observations:

As far as anyone can find out, the judge has lived a life free of any blemishes.  Indeed it was a life anyone one of us would have been proud of.  Men who molest women follow a pattern.  They don't end the pattern in high school.  Think, Bernie Weinstein.  Think, Bill Cosby.  Think, Bill Clinton.  There's a long list of such abusers.  Judge Kavanaugh's life has been nothing like that of these people.

The lady, who gave the story of her and Judge Kavanaugh in a bed, comes from a family with a beef against the Kavanaughs.   It seems the lady's mother went to court regarding a real estate matter.  The judge ruled against the woman's mother.  That judge was Kavenaugh's mother.

Okay, why do I so strongly favor confirming Judge Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court of the U.S.?  Sen Diane Feinstein is the answer.  Her delay in coming forth with her witness against Judge Kavanaugh was clearly political.   Had she disclosed her information promptly, an investigation could have been mounted that could have looked into the charges in a timely manner.  But that's not what she wanted.  Instead, she kept this information to herself until the very last minute.  Her clear intension was to delay the confirmation beyond the time of the next elections.  It was her hope that the Democrats would pick up enough votes to quash the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh.

It is true that that the Republicans used Senate rules to deny the appointment of a person the Democrats had favored for the Supreme Court. But, it's one thing to use Senate rules, fair or not, versus besmirching the reputation of a highly intelligent and well thought of man as a way of denying him confirmation.  A line must be drawn.  Judge Kavanaugh really ought to be confirmed.