(09-26-2018 04:03 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: (09-26-2018 03:52 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: I'd be curious to see what the public sentiment on Kavanaugh is at this point. My suspicion is people generally are souring on him (maybe not on this board but in a lot of places). I wrote the other day we can do better than him on the Supreme Court and I'm fully aware if he withdraws it's possible someone replaces him who is even more conservative.
Even if you don't believe any of the accusers, you have to admit (a) Kavanaugh has/had a drinking problem, (b) he made a lot of very ill-advised decisions in his youth (and some other questionable decisions much later in his life - there are way too many to list them in this response but I'd be happy to do so if people want them, and © he's just not impressive when in front of the committee or in front of the media.
But ram him through if you have to. I'm willing to deal with the consequences because I think it will help the Democrats cause in November. I truly believe that if Kavanaugh gets confirmed, the Democrats will win back both the Senate and House. Good luck in getting a replacement on the Supreme Court at that point, President Trump.
Link, to back up the BS your peddling. Though we all know where your producing it from.
I think the yearbook references back up some of it.
In terms of the drinking, these two quotes are from Kavanaugh's college roommate, James Roche.
Roche remembered Kavanaugh "frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk."
He described Kavanaugh as a "normally reserved" person but a "notably heavy drinker, even by the standards of the time," adding that "he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk."
He basically admitted on Fox News the other night that he was a heavy drinker in high school.
He was in the DKE fraternity at Yale, which was pretty much the party frat house with most of the school's athletes.
Here's a nice New Yorker profile of that fraternity at Yale when he was a member there.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur...ty-at-yale
Kavanaugh has been on the record saying a number of times things to the effect of 'what happened at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep'. He later deleted that specific part of his speech when he testified before the Senate but there are plenty videos of the 2015 speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGGNPMPz3M
He's had financial issues in the past few years, which either were because he bought too many Washington Nationals season tickets he couldn't afford, or possibly because of sports gambling losses.
The guy has had issues. So have a lot of politicians/athletes/celebrities. He's not alone, but he's certainly not an angel.