There are people like that on the Republican side. They just don't have the ear of the "mainstream" media, or of Republicans in the Senate Judiciary committee, or elsewhere. The closest thing we have to Di-Fi's malicious rumor-mongering is what Trump said about Cruz's dad. Not even Republicans believed that stuff.
This also is true. Without the MSM, this would not be what it is. Have we heard about Ellison lately?
Just look at this from the New Yorker article:
“Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself”:
She wasn't sure until after she talked with attorneys (I would like to see some bios on her legal team).
You know what, while Ford's accusations of attempted rape are serious, I am in all seriousness asking, what is the big deal if he actually was at this party and pulled out his wiener? Does anyone who was in High School or college during that time remember what college parties were like? Everyone was trying to emulate "Animal House" and everyone, male and female, thought it was cool to do so.
I recall sitting in an urban geography class where some guy trying to get in a fraternity popped in the room naked, wiggled his wiener for everyone while reciting some stupid fraternity thing, then running out. Everyone was cracking up, including the older female professor. I guess that guy could never run for office, at least anymore. Maybe he already did and he's some congressman from somewhere. I wonder how many of the females in that classroom who thought it was the funniest thing ever would now call it sexual assault?
Also, taken from the quote Scout gave above:
“I can say that at fifty-three, but when I was nineteen or twenty I was vulnerable. I didn’t know better.”
Wasn't Kavanaugh also 19 or 20? Maybe he didn't know any better either. I have a whole big long list of stuff from my teens and early twenties, that in my fifties, I have checked off as "that was stupid".