The woman who wrote the letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of behaving badly at a high school party some 35 years ago has come forward to give details. Christine Blasey Ford is accusing Judge Kavanaugh of a clumsy, drunken assault when he was a high school junior.
There are many reasons to think her allegations dubious, but even if we grant her the benefit of the doubt, this whole episode has about it more than a whiff of hypocrisy.
Not only is it despicable to trot out at the last minute, after the hearings are over, a letter from a woman who accuses a 17 year-old Brett Kavanaugh of acting much like many other 17 year-old males act before they grow up, but worse, those Democrats who are seeking to destroy a man's reputation, personally and professionally, on the basis of one woman's allegation that Kavanaugh behaved contemptibly and dishonorably as a teenager, are people who worshipped Bill Clinton and the Kennedy brothers - John and Ted.
Now we're to believe they're appalled that a judicial nominee got intoxicated and behaved as an adolescent somewhat like - but perhaps not nearly as bad as - Bill Clinton and the Kennedy brothers behaved as adults. It's surreal.
These folks are so shameless one is tempted to laugh at their audacity even though character assassination is scarcely a laughing matter. The left has turned hypocrisy into a virtue and they practice it with a virtuosity that you almost can't help but admire.
If Kavanaugh did do what he's accused of it certainly shouldn't be minimized, but how many Democrats have done much worse than that during their adult years? Democrats will turn out in Texas in November to vote for Beto O'Rourke for the U.S. Senate, but O'Rourke has not only been convicted of DUI he tried to flee from the scene. Driving while intoxicated is at least as dangerous, and to far more people, than what Kavanaugh is accused of doing, but that doesn't seem to bother the left.
If Kavanaugh is unfit to serve on the Supreme Court because of his choices as a 17 year old, every U.S. Senator who has ever driven a car while over the blood alcohol limit for intoxication, whether they were caught or not, should resign forthwith. But of course they won't.
Ms Ford claims to have been traumatized by the event - she thought Kavanaugh might inadvertently kill her - but it would be instructive to know for whom she voted in 1992 and 1996. Was it Bill Clinton, a sexual predator? Did she vote for Hillary in 2016, a woman who sought to minimize and discredit other women who accused her husband of much worse behavior than that of which Ms Ford is accusing Brett Kavanaugh? If so, how genuine can her abhorrence of those who commit sexual assault be?
The Democrats' politics of personal destruction - ruining people's careers and lives for their own political gain - is reprehensible and extremely damaging to our Republic. It's one thing to hold people accountable for crimes they committed as adults, but if every candidate for a public service position is going to have his or her teenage years scoured by the media and laid open to public scrutiny, it will, in the long run, insure that very few qualified people will want to enter public service.
Personal humiliation in the eyes of one's family and friends is, after all, a very high price to pay for seeking to offer one's services to one's country, but it's a price the left has exacted whenever they could, from Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas and now Brett Kavanaugh.