There was actually plenty of time three months ago. It was Diane Finestein that elected to wait until the hearings were practically completed before bringing all of this up. That's what makes it clearly a political stunt. I don't know what Kavanaugh did when he was 17, but I DO know what Bill Clinton did when he was in the White House. I don't recall hearing liberals weeping and wringing their hands about that, and pouring out their hearts about "the healings of trauma victims". No, then it was an avalanche of poison directed at Lewinsky who, thankfully for her, had held on to her evidence. Where was your weeping and heartfelt emotions then? So it's all about politics after all, and nothing about justice, either for Kavanaugh or Ford. It's just an opportunity for otherwise indifferent liberals to parade their phony concerns for women.
Republicans have no time to bring witnesses? What witnesses? There are none. They have bent over backwards to accommodate this accuser, but she has no witnesses. What would they present? A yearbook page, or a book, neither of which have any direct bearing on the accusation? It seems the dems have seized on this because they have nothing else to go with. They have behaved shamefully. Cory Booker sits there with a straight face asking questions when he is the one person in the room who is admittedly guilty of groping a girl in his teen years. All those democrats who say they are concerned about women's rights,why haven't they addressed that, or the Keith Ellison issue? What a noble bunch. It makes me glad beyond belief that I am not a liberal democrat. Repubs have their own sets of problems to be sure. As it says in Romans, "There are none righteous, no not one," and politics is frequently a dirty business. But when democrats attack a man who, from all accounts, has led an honorable life, then that is going too far. Is it possible he did something stupid in his teen years? Of course it is, and the lady might be telling the truth for all I know, so we'll just have to see what happens on Thursday. It is just unfortunate that this is being turned into a political circus. Barring the unexpected, if the republicans don't have the courage to approve Kavanaugh, then they will be as cowardly as the democrats.