Thats It For Kavanaugh
The statement about his drinking at Yale will, I'd guess, be the end of Kavanaugh's nomination. This is, if I'm not mistaken, consistent with my current view/prediction. Ford's story is false, but Kavanaugh's drinking and his dissembling about it, sink him.
posted by Winston Smith at
12:17 PM
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Where are you seeing this statement? I can't find a reference anywhere likely.
Glad we agree on something! He also made ridiculous claims that the whole inquiry was on behalf of the Clintons and unnamed political donors of millions of dollars. This, too, disqualifies him as someone who is unlikely to call balls and strikes fairly.
Anon,
Here's a report on the statement:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-friend-yale-university-charles-chad-ludington-letter-released-2018-09-30/
PM,
To be clear, though I think this *is* the end of Kavanaugh, I'm not sure it *should* be. He didn't say he never got in fights while drunk...just that he didn't black out.
I mean...who *hasn't* gotten into fights from time to time, drunk or otherwise?
OK. I saw that, but didn't think it was what you were referring to. I don't think that statement should be disqualifying, it doesn't contradict his statement.
If the FBI finds evidence suggestive of sexual assault then fine, drop him as a nominee. I don't think that drinking, even heavy drinking should be a disqualification from office. As long as he isn't drunk on the bench, what he does with his consciousness on his own time is his business.
Do we really want to make drinking an issue here? Because if so, we will have nothing but abstainers going into the future. No one but Kavannaugh knows whether or not he blacked out, unless he talked about it with friends in the days afterwords. If 1) you drank to excess and 2) you can't prove you never blacked from that excessive drinking 3) therefore you cannot reasonably deny a negative involving drinking is the argument; then no one except teetotalers can be vetted for this without such accusations being a possibility. Blacking out is so person specific, you can't just say he got really drunk therefore he must have blacked out. I went to a dry college for undergrad and we still had enough experience with drinking to understand these things.
If you are drunk enough to puke, you are drunk enough to black out. Both occur up near BAC .20, which is very drunk indeed: roughly half a fifth of booze in a couple hours' drinking. I am mostly thinking: really, Republicans? This guy is the best you can put forward for USSC? It's the soft bigotry of low expectations, as applied to white males.
I absolutely agree with you, Anon, and was just hunt-and-pecking a post on mobile saying that, while I drank too much as an undergrad, I don't have any evidence that I ever blacked out. I barfed many times, I passed out many times, but, if "black out" means (and we've never established *what* it means) *drinking until you are walking around doing shit but don't know it,* then, to the best of my knowledge, I never blacked out.
Well, I'll just post the post. But we agree.
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