My Reply To A Correspondent's Observation About My Kavanaugh Meme

A Correspondent's Observation About The Above Meme:

Honestly, does grabbing a girls boob at a drunk teenage party even matter? That's what those are for. Are you the same person you were as a teenager?

My Reply:

I leave it to my fellow Americans to decide whether Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault is, in their minds, sufficient cause to derail his nomination. 

Since the "case" is not being tried in "a court of law," but rather in "the court of public opinion," Americans will make up their minds subjectively. That's how "the court of public opinion" works.

However, what concerns me much more than the sexual allegation itself is the clear possibility (and in my mind, the overwhelming likelihood) that Judge Kavanaugh's denial is a lie and that rather than take responsibility for his "juvenile indiscretion" (to use terminology that may be acceptable to you) he has cravenly chosen to represent his accuser as the liar.

I know that most American conservatives are at peace with a president who lies more easily than he metabolizes.

But those of us who believe in Truth and Intellectual Rigor think Trump and his followers are provoking not only a constitutional crisis but an epistemological crisis by representing falsehood as truth.

Alternative facts?!? 

Dear God, help us.

Clearly, American conservatives are constitutionally entitled to conduct this experiment in the replacement of truth with falsehood and nonfactual opinion.

However, I do not see any constitutional necessity for approving a Supreme Court nominee who, like Clarence Thomas, will live the rest of his life under a very dark cloud.

Indeed, there are two clouds: the sexual abuse itself, and the possibility/likelihood that Kavanaugh is a craven coward who instead of confessing sexual assualt, portrays his seemingly honest accuser as a liar.

Shame on Trump. 

Shame on Kavanaugh. 

Shame on American "conservatism."

Shame on "conservative" "Christianity."

And while I'm at it, "Shame on Clarence Thomas," "Shame on Neil Gorsuch," and shame on The Republican Party for stealing Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat.

"Clarence Thomas, Merrick Garland's Theft, Brett Kavanaugh: 3 Thoroughly Bogus Supremes"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/09/clarence-thomas-merrick-garlands-theft.html

Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” “Where the Right Went Wrong" 

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Right-Went-Wrong-Neoconservatives/dp/0312341156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381295072&sr=8-1&keywords=where+the+right+went+wrong