Letters: Kavanaugh mea culpa would have been best strategy

Kavanaugh too dumb

I would vote not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. I seriously doubt his intelligence.

When confronted with the claims, he should have recognized that they occurred during his adolescent years and that he could not reliably refute them, because of his documented heavy drinking. He could have denied the charges, declared them contrary to his Catholic belief system as a young person and certainly his adult value system but admit that in a drunken state he could have acted as charged.

Then he could have pursued the world’s greatest mea culpa, abjectly apologizing and condemning such activity and dedicating himself to working against the mind-set of the immature adult male. Most people would have believed his sincerity and remorse (even though probably not true) and been willing to give him a chance.

The evangelical movement loves repentant sinners. Their leaders have been using this gambit for years. It would have completely deflected the attacks of his accusers without admitting anything. But he did not. We are not going to get fairness, temperance (judicial or alcoholic), integrity or probity if he is advanced to the Supreme Court. We are not even going to get intelligence.

Apologize, Blumenthal

I have been very attentive to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Some senators acted civilly, while others made fools of themselves. It is their way. They can’t help it.

But one really upset me. That was Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. He acts like he is the moral example the rest of us should follow. I will not. He has falsely claimed that he served in Vietnam, when, in fact, he did not. An effort to enhance his image for the next election I presume.

I have several friends who honorably served in Vietnam, coming back with Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars and other honors and awards. I have also known people who did not come back, having sacrificed all for us.

I will lend no credence to anything Blumenthal says, unless he goes to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in public, with the cameras rolling, and apologizes to each name on that wall, individually, for claiming he served with them. I won’t be holding my breath waiting for this to happen. But it should.

Lock them up

Let’s lock up President Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. They both seem to be liars and sexual predators. And Kavanaugh may have a serious drinking problem.

I think Kavanaugh, and his drinking buddy, Mark Judge, were likely too drunk to remember assaulting Christine Blasey Ford. Ford said she saw Kavanaugh’s face when he was assaulting her, and Judge’s face, and heard their cruel laughter.

He’s lied all the way through his nomination process and previously during his confirmation to the appeals court. And he drank so much he’s passed out, puked, blacked out— which he admitted in a letter he wrote. According to his Yale classmates, he was a sloppy, belligerent drunk who often did not remember what he did the next day.

These lies were all made under oath. It’s on the record now. Credible journalists have uncovered the truth.

I predict that if Sen. Mitch McConnell, and enough other Republicans, actually vote in favor of this deplorable nominee, the GOP will lose both the House and the Senate.

I hope and pray that every able-bodied Democrat gets out to vote this November.

White House reeks

Before he was elected, President Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. But in the last 18 months, instead of draining the swamp, Trump and the likes of Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn have turned the swamp into an open sewer leading from the front door of the White House to the Oval Office.

One has to wonder when Sen. Mitch McConnell and Republicans, complacently silent and already smelling of the stench, will summon the resolve to “drain the sewer.” America can’t wait much longer.