Because if she shows up to testify, that doesn't delay the confirmation vote until after the mid-term elections. And that's the plan -- delay, delay, delay.
She also claims that she shouldn't have to provide any proof of her accusation, that it's up to the FBI to do that. Well, first of all, the alleged "crime} isn't a federal offense, so it's not the FBI's job to investigate it. It was a state crime at the time it allegedly happened, but since the statute of limitations has long since expired he can't be prosecuted, so why should any public resources be expended on investigating an incident that absolutely, positively cannot be proven or disproven? If she didn't want to report it at the time, then tough nougies.
And I still want to know why she didn't want to tell her parents. That doesn't make sense.
Quite literally every woman on my wife's maternal side has been sexually abused (everything from groping to systemic rape). When my wife's aunt told her mom that the step-dad had molested her the mom blamed the her for her own abuse. When my wife was molested by her grandfather she told her aunt (her dad's sister, so the daughter of the molester). Her aunt refused to tell anyone else, let alone call the cops, and just tried to bury it. When another of my wife's aunts found out her daughters had been raped by her husband she told them to "just get over it" and never even tried to sympathize with them.
Now, I'm not saying Ms Ford's parents were like that. But I can well understand why a 15 year old girl might be reticent to tell her parents about being assaulted.
All that said, I still have very serious doubts that Ms Ford was assaulted as described by Kavanaugh. She might well have been assaulted in that manner by someone else. She might be fabricating the whole story. At the end of the day we will never know with anything like certainty what the truth is.
And so, Kavanaugh should be confirmed immediately after the hearing on Monday. And if there was any real justice in this world, all the D's that participated in this whole sordid mess would be tarred, feathered, and run out town on a rail.