We were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies. We don't think he should be confirmed. (WaPo)

[highplainsdem]

Washington Post op-ed tonight from Charles Ludington, Lynne Brookes and Elizabeth Swisher.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-were-brett-kavanaughs-drinking-buddies-we-dont-think-he-should-be-confirmed/2018/10/04/923cf6ac-c821-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

Since coming forward, we each have received numerous angry messages accusing us of attempting to ruin a man’s life because of his drunken antics as a college student. In fact, none of us condemned Brett for his frequent drunkenness. We drank too much in college as well. It is true that Brett acknowledged he sometimes drank “too many beers.” But he also stated that he never drank to the point of blacking out.

By coming forward, each of us has disrupted our own lives and those of our families. As well as navigating the intense media interest, including having news vans and reporters set up in front of the home of one of us, we have received large amounts of hate mail, including threats of violence. We have lost friendships. The work servers of one of us were hacked.

None of this is what we wanted, but we felt it our civic duty to speak the truth and say that Brett lied under oath while seeking to become a Supreme Court justice. That is our one and only message, but it is a significant one. For we each believe that telling the truth, no matter how difficult, is a moral obligation for our nation’s leaders. No one should be able to lie their way onto the Supreme Court. Honesty is the glue that holds together a society of laws. Lies are the solvent that dissolves those bonds.

All of us went to Yale, whose motto is “Lux et Veritas” (Light and Truth). Brett also belonged to a Yale senior secret society called Truth and Courage. We believe that Brett neither tells the former nor embodies the latter. For this reason, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on the nation’s highest court.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Wow, I admire and respect them!

RESIST!

[underpants]

2. Retired Justice Stevens too.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/retired-justice-john-paul-stevens-calls-kavanaughs-temperament-disqualifying-senators-should-pay-attention-to-this

I thought [Kavanaugh] had the qualifications for the Supreme Court, should he be selected,” Stevens said at a closed event held by a retirement group in Boca Raton, according to The Palm Beach Post. “I’ve changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability … I feel his performance in the hearings ultimately changed my mind.”

[mopinko]

6. this is a huge shocker.

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[sandensea]

5. Anthony "no Jack" Kennedy was in on it too.

Not to mention Keenedy's money laundering son at Deutsche Bank.

[FakeNoose]

7. And yet, all of Kavanaugh's anger is directed at the Dems

The fact that his own friends and classmates are saying these things, it must be some liberal conspiracy. They must have taken a payoff from the Democrats, right Kavanaugh? They can't possibly be telling the truth.

This is all the Democrats' fault. Probably Hillary is behind this whole thing, ever since she murdered Vince Foster she's been trying to ruin your career.

[Pepsidog]

8. It's not the beer or his drinking but the lies which is most disturbing. Shame on you Republicans,

you disgrace this country.

[Stuart G]

9. Here are the 2 more key sentences from the WP editorial (not in the Original Post)

We each asserted that Brett lied to the Senate by stating, under oath, that he never drank to the point of forgetting what he was doing. We said, unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk.


If the above is the truth, then Brett lied..In the hearing, he was under oath to tell the truth, but he lied...according to these 3 students. That is why Bret needs to be rejected. And stating this to the WP Editorial Board took tremendous courage.

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R