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When you have a terrible pass rush, teams don't have to hold to keep you away from their quarterback. Not rocket science.

Yep, at Michigan we gave up when we were behind. This time we gave up when we had the lead.

According to the State of Maryland, where this allegedly took place, says misdemeanor assault.

I agree, one of the bright spots today.

To be accurate, misdemeanor assault.

I assume legally that a piece of evidence doesn't exist, until it is provided to investigators/court.

I have, and I didn't notice that it was your post that I was responding to when I posted. Sorry about that.

Like Ellison?

The obvious answer to your question is that Gorsuch replacing Scalia did nothing to change the philosophical make up of the court. It is assumed that Kavanaugh will change the philosophical make up of the court in a direction that the Democrats won't like.

You are correct that it is miles apart. However, if he truly didn't do this, holding no Ill will is probably the best I could do in his situation.

According to Townhall.com (a conservative website), all Republicans and "several" Democrats will vote to confirm Kavanaugh. It doesn't say who their sources are.

It was his daughter and Kavanaugh repeated stated neither he nor his family hold any ill will towards Dr. Ford.

But this whole thing is an alleged incident that occurred 35 years ago

That is relevant how? You said when this happens Democrats believe the accuser regardless of the accused party. The most obvious example of this being false is Bill Clinton who at the time had more credible and recent accusations made against him, and the Democrats treated his accusers WAY worse than the Republicans are treating Dr. Ford. Remember Carvilles "you never know what you'll get when you wave $100 bills around a trailer court" when describing one of Clinton's accusers. I also notice you didn't mention Ellison, who currently has abuse allegations made against him with witnesses, and if I'm not mistaken, medical documentation.

Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne's family, Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick, and more recently (currently), Keith Ellison's ex-girlfriend.

They (Democrats) may be wrong; but I'm pretty sure it's their motivation

Yep. Good on you.

You are probably correct.

Yep, and if I had to guess, in 2020 the Democrats will use the "McConnell Rule" if a vacancy on the Supreme Court opens up; and who could blame them?

My first instinct is to answer "Joe Biden Rule".....but actually as much as I would have hated it, I think the Garland nomination probably should have moved forward.

They knew about the letter Feinstein had but didn't know exact allegations, so began the process of getting their letter written and signed.

Nope. I prefer the days when the Senate, with about 75 of the same Senators, unanimously, or nearly unanimously confirmed both Scalia and Ginsburg to the court, because both sides understood the consequences of losing Presidential elections

I disagree. The hope here for Democrats is that if they can sink this nomination, there will not be enough time to confirm a different nominee before the midterms, and if they can win the Senate (Not probable, but certainly possible) they will have the votes to reject any nominee Trump nominates.

I'm sure that's true, but there's a big difference between telling/bragging to people you're sleeping with a teacher and running around telling people you assaulted someone.

If I recall correctly, Sen. Feinstein had the letter, but didn't share it with anyone on the committee. There were rumors that the letter contained allegations that would call into question the integrity of Kavanaugh. Republicans were not sitting on any evidence, because Feinstein wasn't sharing it with anyone. But they did know that Kavanaugh's integrity was potentially going to be questioned. In this situation, it is not odd, rare, wrong nor unethical, to have 65 women who have known and/or worked for him for many years, sign a letter vouching for his integrity.