The confirmation inquisition of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh provided a virtue-signaling opportunity for Democrats, and they seized it. “Believe all women!” They cried. Even though they knew that was nonsense, it provided an opportunity, which thankfully failed, to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
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It was nonsense because many human beings, male and female, simply aren’t believable. People lie–men pretending to be women, anyone?–and though Democrats continue to claim they have no idea what women are, that includes those elusive women.
During my police career, in a town of 50,000, which was a regional shopping and entertainment center for a great many more, I often investigated rapes and other allegations of sexual crimes. We discovered that approximately 50% of those reports were false and prosecuted them in the hope of deterring future false claims, but year after year, that reality held true.
That wasn’t because we were male chauvinists unwilling to take their reports seriously. It was because we found evidence of their false reporting, and in virtually every case, they admitted they were lying. But why would women do that? Some did it for revenge or because they were jilted. Some were mentally unbalanced. Others, particularly teenage girls, did it to avoid punishment for staying out too late or other parental rule infractions. Those were only the most common motivations.
With the Maine Senate run of Democrat Graham Platner, we see just how false were, and are, Democrat claims of championing and believing women. Remember this?
If you recall, the lack of evidence led to the Senate Judiciary Committee combing through Kavanaugh’s personal calendars. Denials that such a thing had ever happened, coming from childhood friends, were treated as still more evidence of sexism.
There was Sen. Shelton Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who grilled Kavanaugh about using the term “boofing” (apparently referring to passing gas) with a high school friend as if it were a confession to a rape. His inquisitorial barrage was something straight out of the McCarthy period.
Whitehouse expressed disgust that some would not take Ford’s word for it, declaring, “Today I stand with women who are brave enough to come forward with their stories of abuse and mistreatment. They deserve to be heard and credible allegations must be investigated. We must believe survivors, not bully them.”
Ah, but how does that pertain to the spoiled rich kid pretending to be an everyman oyster farmer?
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Whitehouse is now a major donor and supporter of Graham Platner, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine. He dismisses the New York Times accounts from women of Platner’s physically and mentally abusive behavior. Instead of believing these women, he reportedly attacked Lyndsey Fifield, who “bravely” came forward publicly with her story at the request of Times reporters.
Whitehouse is quoted as saying that he was “unimpressed” by the allegations and the multiple women coming forward “seems like a lot of nothing.” He suggested that he is not prepared to believe a woman if she is a conservative. “I mean, the only one who had anything to say that seemed ‘unsettling’ was a woman who works for right-wing political operations,” he said.
Suffice it to say the claims of multiple genuine women of emotional and physical abuse by Platner come, unlike Kavanaugh’s accuser, with real evidence and corroboration. Even though The New York Times published part of Lyndsey Fifield’s tale of Platner woe, they stopped short of really damaging material. They published just enough to allow Democrats to downplay or distract and claim political motivations.
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Where indeed? Take the link to read several lengthy Fifield X posts.
Although people tended to date within their own political camps, young singles in the capital (Lyndsey was 27 when she started dating Platner) weren’t litmus-testing potential partners. As Lyndsey has said, she was shocked when her ex-boyfriend became a Senate candidate in Maine, and felt a duty to do something, even though she didn’t want to get publicly involved. She’s a suburban wife and mom who doesn’t need that kind of attention. However, staffers for the New York Times somehow got her phone number — I’ll give you three guesses how, and the first two don’t count — and persuaded Lyndsey to cooperate with their plans for a story.
Whitehouse is not the only Democrat hypocrite. Many Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, were the pretend champions of women when it helped them attack Kavanaugh. Now, Schumer can only, in response to reporter questions about Platner’s misogyny, Nazi sympathies, and antisemitism, stupidly and clumsily, repeat: “We’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.”
We don’t hear Democrats whining much about the Republican “war on women,” these days. That’s because it was always a war they were waging, and on people they knew were women all along.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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