We’ll totally respect you but you’re lying
Lindsey Graham is quite clear about his determination to ignore anything Christine Blasey Ford says in her testimony to Congress in a few days.
“You can’t bring it in a criminal court, you would never sue civilly, you couldn’t even get a warrant,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace. “What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy’s life based on an accusation? I don’t know when it happened, I don’t know where it happened, and everybody named in regard to being there said it didn’t happen.”
Ruin his life? He’s a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. How is that ruin?
But more to the point, what about her life? Why is it always so easy for these guys to ignore her life? Why do they have no shame, still, about treating women as not real people, expendable, side issues, sluts who like to cause trouble for men for absolutely no reason apart from a tiny attempted rape a long time ago?
“Unless there’s something more, no I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this,” Graham said. “But she should come forward, she should have her say, she will be respectfully treated.”
Announcing in advance that you’ll ignore her no matter what she says is not treating her respectfully. It assumes she’s lying, and it boasts of wasting her time and effort and money and peace of mind, and it tells the world that the man matters while the woman does not, even though he (allegedly) assaulted her and not the other way around.
Updating to add some tweets commenting on this artless admission:
He is reprehensible but honest. R’s don’t care if they put sex predator on the SCt. They put one in WH https://t.co/etsWt3pE20
— Jen "get knocked down, get back up " Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) September 23, 2018
Juror: The testimony I hear at trial won’t change my vote.
Judge: You may be excused.Graham: Ford’s testimony won’t change my vote https://t.co/eddpEFdsSP via @politico
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) September 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1043885170028412936/video/1
They’ve done it before. They had no shame about treating Anita Hill badly, and ignoring her allegations, even in the face of corroboration. Why should they feel shame about Christine Blasey Ford? Thomas has been a reliable partisan hack for them, and there is every reason to believe Kavanaugh will be the same. What’s the lives of a few women in the face of seizing control of the Supreme Court for the next few decades? Besides, the reason they want this sexual predator on the court is to put bitches in their place, reassert their believe that women are not the proper owners of their own bodies, and get those women back in the kitchen making them sandwiches.
Perish forbid you ‘ruin a guy’s life,’ when you can use him to ruin the entire country.
John, and perish the thought that he might have contributed to that ruination. No, it’s only the woman accusing him, by unreasonably expecting men to keep their penises to themselves.