fossilfreak

Ben Hart takes a less charitable view than I about Christine Ford: (I'm reminded of what we used to say back in the '90s or so: "If they don't cheat, they can't win.")

"The only thing I disagreed with in Susan Collins' great speech is when she said Dr. Ford's claims were credible and sincere.

Politically, I guess Collins has to say that.

I did not think Ford's claims were credible or sincere.

"Credible" just means believable -- as in might be true. Plausible. So, yes, plausible at first glance. Possible.

But once additional data became available, her claims quickly became not credible. For example:

1) The three names she put forward as witnesses to the alleged sexual assault had no recollection of it. Had no recollection of ever being at such a party (of 6 people, so not really a party; a small low-key gathering).

2) This includes her long-time friend Leland Keyser who also said she remembers no such event, or being at any such party. She says she never even met Kavanaugh.

3) Ford can't remember the year of this gathering. At first she said it was in the mid 1980s. Later she said it was in 1982 (after consulting with Dem Senate staffers).

4) She cannot remember where this alleged incident occurred.

5) Ford can't remember how she got to this party, or how she got home. There were no cell phones in 1982. So if she left the house out the front door immediately after the incident, how did she get home?

6) When Ford left the house through the front door, she apparently left her long-time friend Leland Keyser in the house as the only woman with 4 sexually aggressive drunk rapist-types.

7) Leland Keyser never asked Ford why she left the party without her. The two friends never communicated with each other about this incident.

8 - Ford never mentioned that she was sexually assaulted until some 30 years later when she mentioned something to her therapist and husband in couples therapy. But never mentioned Kavanaugh to her therapist or husband.

9) Kavanaugh's name only came up in the context of his Supreme Court nomination.

10) Sen Feinstein obviously did not think Ford's claims credible. She had Ford's letter and account since late July, but only let it drop after the hearings were over, the week of the scheduled vote. If she thought Ford's claims credible, she would have brought them up in July or August. She knew Ford's claims would not stand up under scrutiny, so held them to the last minute to throw the process into chaos.

11) The more Ford interacted with Dem Senate Judiciary Committee staffers (and the lawyers they provided) the more her story changed -- precisely because her original story did not add up (i.e. her original time-frame being mid-1980s when Kavanaugh would not have been at Georgetown Prep, would have been a student at Yale).

So no. Ford's claims were not credible or sincere. They were a lie from the git-go.

I would like to see Ford charged with perjury and for accusing someone falsely of sexual assault.

Sexual assault is a terrible crime. It's also horrific to falsely accuse someone of this crime -- in this case for the purpose of advancing a political agenda."

Lynn Lowry

"Ford said that she needed a second front door because of her claustrophobia from being attacked by Kavanaugh. It turns out according to Palo Alto records, the second front door was there because they added a room that was going to be rented out.

(13) Another lie was her fear of flying. She often flew for pleasure.

(15) Yet another lie was that she didn't know anything about lie detector tests and was upset when she had hers. According to a former boyfriend, she coached her friend Monica McClean on how to take a lie detector test when she was going to apply to be an FBI agent.

Not only was Dr. Ford not credible, she committed perjury."