IT IS WRONG – AT 12:31 P.M. ET:  What is happening to Judge Kavanaugh is wrong.  Here is a man with a superb reputation, a fine family, and two daughters who must hear their respected father destroyed on television by fanatical Democrats eager for a scalp. 

I have no idea whether Judge Kavanaugh committed an offense.  I wasn't there.  But absolutely no credible evidence has been presented against him. 

No man has to prove his innocence in this republic.  The government has to prove you guilty.  But we seem to live in a time when the charge alone is enough to destroy a man's life. 

The term is McCarthyism.  You're seeing it played out before you on your television screens. 

And yet, consider this remarkable summation of the facts from Charles Cooke of National Review, as presented by Scott Johnson at Powerline: 

Well, we seem to have hit a brick wall. All four of the people named by Kavanaugh’s accuser have now given their accounts to the Senate. And all four of them have said either that Kavanaugh is innocent of all charges, or that they have no recollection of his doing anything — anything — wrong. Put as simply as can be, there is nothing in the testimony of any of the named witnesses that corroborates, supports, or even implies Dr. Ford’s allegations. Of the five people who were supposedly at the party, only the accuser has suggested misconduct.

COMMENT:   So why will there be a hearing this week?  Why are we about to see a circus?  Because the weak Republican Party has once again been sucker punched.  The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee could have conducted an investigation on their own, declared there was no real evidence against the judge, and proceeded with a vote on his confirmation.  But they fell for the "nice" game.  It's happened before.

September 23,  2018