Justice Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing *DISCUSSION AND LIVE COMMENTARY*

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One thing Flake could so is promise to vote no until there is an FBI investigation, but if the investigation clears him, promise to vote yes.

If he can get Collins or whoever to follow suit, that pretty much forces Trump to pick a new nominee and doesn't require any Republican to ever actually vote yes or no, both of which are damaging votes politically

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I'm just wondering, but is Cory Gardner really going to vote for Kavanaugh? He represents what is effectively a blue state now (full of white college graduates and only getting bluer), and this vote is going to kill him in 2020. This isn't something mundane like documents, this is about sexual assault and evidently now, gang rape.

And for that matter, Tillis should really be thinking this over too.

For whatever reason, Republican politicians are way more scared of losing primaries than general elections, even though the latter happens much more often.

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Theory: Kavanaugh is claiming to be a choir boy virgin in high school despite all the evidence to the contrary because that's what he told his wife he was like back then and doesn't want to admit to a decades old lie to her.

He never claimed to be a choir boy. He never claimed he didn't drink regularly. He never claimed he didn't act like an idiot. What he claimed is he was a virgin, he didn't assault anyone or participate in any assaults on anyone, and he never drank in such a way that he couldn't remember what happened after.

And I think his denials are all BS, but speculate that they may be designed to keep his wife in the dark about his past more so than to fool the country.

Its pretty normal for people not to tell their spouse about prior sexual history, and he may have told her that he was a virgin and hid his wild past from her all these years.

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George Washington's slave owning, while not illegal at the time nor uncommon for a rich Virginian, would definitely be a disqualifier for a Supreme Court appointment if he were somehow still alive today and unrepentant.

Not sure how that's relevant though. Maybe Trump is trying to lay a trap for people to make that exact point.

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Trump's killing it at this press conference.

No one is surprised that you think that.

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https://twitter.com/eschor/status/1045096168370393090

Absolutely disgusting, and yet totally expectable.

And just putting that out there kinda forces Dems to only focus on the ones brave enough to be public, out of fear that it could be a Republican troll job.