(06-23-2019 06:56 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 06:58 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I believe(d) kavanaugh for multiple reasons, but the basic one is is I have personal experience with the way recollections can morph into memories of something that never happened.
I saw an old classmate, and our reminiscing wandered into a scrape he and I got into. As he remembers it, it was my idea. I remember it just the opposite.
I once ran into a former girl friend that I had broken up with 10 years earlier. As we talked, it became apparent she remembered the sequence of events that led to our break up way differently than I did. And that was a 10 year lapse, not 30, And Blasey Ford was drinking at the time. I can also attest that sometimes drinking leads to fuzzy memories and mistaken understandings.
No court in the US would convict on that, except the Court of Democratic Politicians acting to preserve a SCOTUS seat. So we get the scene of righteously angry people, feeling justified in doing anything they fell the need to do.

You do know that victims of sexual assault often take years to find the courage to come out with their story, right? These victims often blame themselves initially, fear ramifications from their accusers, etc.?

Can happen? Yes. Did happen in this case? That's a different question.

Quote:I get that memories can fade over time. Perhaps something as traumatic as a sexual assault would lead to a more solid memory than a break-up with a girlfriend? Perhaps a victim of a sexual assault would pore over the details of the sexual assault over the years more than you pored over the details of a scrape that you got into with your buddy?
What is your cutoff for victims of sexual assault in terms of timing? Write off their credibility after nine years? Five years? Six months?

In any he said/she said situations, my "cutoffs" are whose story is best corroborated and what are the inconsistencies. I don't know that either one is capable accurately remembering at this point. I do find certain circumstances behind her story to be highly questionable. He's a conservative judge and she's obviously a very left-leaning person, being out forward by very left-leaning politicians, at the very last minute, with some nonsensical details (like the second front door and a world traveler who can't come on a certain date because of her fear of flying) in her story. Yes, based on those factors, I think was a made-up story.