09-25-2018, 09:02 AM
(09-24-2018, 11:43 PM)GMDino Wrote: So you're saying Trump picked another "best person"?
See I'd agree entirely about the Democrats trying to push a narrative of "rushing" if only because of the Garland situation. Comparatively they will always be "rushing"...but Kavanaugh has baggage and that is the GOP's fault for not picking a cleaner guy.
I agree that Garland makes every nomination appear like a rush in comparison, but that is an outlier in the dataset that skews the results. Also, as much as Trump and the GOP are one in the same these days, Trump chose Kavanaugh, not the rest of the leadership. They are trying to confirm him because that is there job, but this wasn't their man.
(09-25-2018, 01:01 AM)bfine32 Wrote: To say we didn't boast about our conquests would be lying. Of course we were just kids
I get what you're saying here, but my problem with the "they were kids" argument for this stuff is that is almost tries to have it both ways. We have the defense of Kavanaugh being both "he was an upstanding young man who would never do such a thing" and "so what if he was a horny misogynist? He was just a teenager and boys will be boys." You can't claim both as a defense of someone.
I also have a problem with that defense because in the spate of teenage people of color being killed in police shootings or by citizens "standing their ground" the people giving a pass to Kavanaugh's behavior as a teenager are quick to treat these young people as adults that are fully responsible for their actions and then some.
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