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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you know why GOPrs say that the Kavanaugh revelations are a political hit-job by Democrats...
Because that's exactly how Republicans have operated:
From Juanita Broderick's Wiki page:
Though Broaddrick was resistant to talking to the media, rumors about her story began circulating no later than Clinton's presidential bid in 1992. Broaddrick had confided in Phillip Yoakum, whom she knew from business circles and at the time considered a friend. When Clinton won the Democratic nomination, Yoakum, widely considered to have a Republican agenda,[12] contacted Sheffield Nelson, Clinton's opponent in the 1990 gubernatorial race. Yoakum arranged a meeting between Nelson and Broaddrick, who resisted Yoakum's and Nelson's push that she go public.[1] Yoakum secretly taped the conversation and wrote a letter summarizing the allegations, which began to circulate within Republican circles. The story reached the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times in October 1992, but the papers dropped the story after Broaddrick refused to talk to reporters and Yoakum refused to release the recording.[12]
In the fall of 1997, Paula Jones's private investigators tried to talk to Broaddrick at her home, also secretly taping the conversation.[20] Broaddrick refused to discuss the incident, saying "it was just a horrible horrible thing," and that she "wouldn't relive it for anything." The investigators told her she would likely be subpoenaed if she would not talk to them. Broaddrick said she would deny everything, saying "you can't get to him, and I'm not going to ruin my good name to do it there's just absolutely no way anyone can get to him, he's just too vicious."[21] Broaddrick was subpoenaed in the Jones suit soon after and submitted an affidavit denying that Clinton had made "any sexual advances".[1][2] The recording of Broaddrick's conversation with the investigators was leaked to the press, but Broaddrick continued to refuse to speak to reporters.[20]
Despite Broaddrick's denial in her affidavit, Jones' lawyers included Yoakum's letter and Broaddrick's name in a 1998 filing.[20] The letter suggested that the Clintons had bought Broaddrick's silence, describing a phone call where Broaddrick's husband asked Yoakum to say the incident never happened and said that he intended to ask Clinton "for a couple of big favors."[22] This, along with the discrepancy between the letter and Broaddrick's affidavit, attracted the attention of independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating Clinton for obstruction of justice. After being approached by the FBI, Broaddrick consulted her son, a lawyer, who told her she could not lie to federal investigators.[12] After Starr granted her immunity,[23] thus assuring that she would not be prosecuted for perjury regarding her affidavit in the Jones case, Broaddrick recanted the affidavit. However, she insisted that Clinton had not pressured or bribed her in any way, and so Starr concluded that the story was not relevant to his investigation and his report only mentioned the recanting in a footnote.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Broaddrick
Of course, the accusations that the GOPrs have lodged against Democrats are false... Although Prof. Blasey-Ford is a registered Democrat herself, she's not working with the kind of underground political smear campaign people that seem to be all the rage in Republican circles.
As always, it's the GOPrs projecting. They have nothing against her.
She has everything against them.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)Murkowski is the only one I have hope for to vote no. She lost her primary as a repub and won as a write in candidate. She is up for reelection in 2020. She has called for a FBI investigation. Let's see what she says after Dr. Ford testifies.
rampartc
(5,438 posts)now that you mention jones vs clinton, kavenaugh himself (along with ann coulter, laura ingraham, and kelly ann conway's husband) were the pro bono "elves" who sabataged a settlement with paula jones and forced the inpeachment issue ........
https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-web-168906
note that officers of the court have a duty to facilitate settlement of cases, not sabatage same.
calimary
(81,507 posts)Do like the Donald.
DFW
(54,445 posts)They know only one rule book: their own. That's how they would have gone about opposig a nomination, so they figure that's how everyone else goes about opposing a nomination.
Actually opposing a nomination because the nominee is unfit for the post is beyond their imagination. They couldn't even conceive of such a reason. Their reaction would be, "well, so he's unqualified. What does THAT have to do with anything?"
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Against all evidence, incoming daily, they refuse to believe they voted for a mentally deficient and depraved destroyer. Refusing to believe they should be afraid of the ideology Kavanaugh will help cement into our constitution is much easier -- they just refuse to know anything about him.
Btw, we'll never know the absolute truth about Broderick's claim that she met Clinton in a hotel room and he raped her. But it's extremely significant that EVEN Ken Starr decided after intensive investigation that he couldn't use her story against Clinton and buried it, didn't mention her at all in his report. (Broderick was having an extramarital affair at the time and reportedly had a cut lip that she would have needed to explain to her husband. )
Ken Starr used all the other very flawed and questionable accusers in his swiftboating, like Paula Jones, even though her belated accounts were disputed by her family in their entirety except that she did tell her sister she was invited up to his hotel room (but she was "tickled" and excited by the whole thing afterward), among many other highly questionable aspects of course. Btw, during Hillary's campaign I visited Broderick's site, and you'd never find a nastier, more vicious nest of Hillary haters and smear spreaders anywhere than those gathered around her there.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)Exactly. Trump kept accusing Clinton of doing what he was actually doing.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)It permeates everything they do.
Lonestarblue
(10,085 posts)Gorsuch took the seat that Merrick Garland should be occupying, and Gorsuch attended the same prep school as Kavanaugh. So during the Gorsuch confirmation, why didnt women and classmates come forward to say he was a drunken party boy and sexual asaulter? Perhaps because he had some judgment and chose a different path than Kavanaugh? Im not on Twitter, but it would be interesting to pose a question about why Kavanaughs hearings are a hit job and Gorsuchs were not. We should expect integrity in a Supreme Court justice and we do not get that with Kavanaugh.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)because there weren't any. He's a right-wing Scalia hack of a Justice who was given a seat that should have been given to Garland (or another Obama nominee), but he at least didn't have these kind of personal issues AFAWK. McConnell seemed to know *something* when he reportedly urged Trump NOT to nominate Kavanaugh, which also probably explains why they've had to resort to drastic measures to try to quickly push his nomination through without much debate or discussion. And they almost might have succeeded until Ford's and Ramirez's accusations went public, which is probably what they were hoping hard to avoid, knowing that it would have been harder to get Kavanaugh off the bench once there than it would be to prevent him from getting on in the first place. Politics can get ugly and dirty and everybody does it to some extent but I don't believe that Democrats are using Ford and Ramirez as political pawns. They are (rightly) concerned with somebody like Kavanaugh getting on the bench.