I wonder how many of the male Republican Senators on the Judicial Committee

[MineralMan]

participated in some similar abuse against a girl while in their teens. They're privileged people, mostly, with a moneyed background. No doubt, some of them went to male-only prep schools and were frat boys in college. How many of them are feeling a little anxious right now about the accusation against Kavanaugh?

I'm betting it's more than one who has a skeleton of that type in his history.

[NewJeffCT]

1. I had made that point on Twitter yesterday

some Trump supporter had commented that if we believe Ford (not sure if her name was public yet at the time) then every man is in danger.

My response was, "Men that have not raped women, or attempted to rape women, have nothing to worry about."

[malaise]

2. That simple

and I know many of them

[NewJeffCT]

4. Hard to fathom for some people

that it's that simple.

[Grasswire2]

9. It was Laura Ingraham saying that.

She'll say anything. She's an old pal of Kavanaugh. They ran in the same pack.

[mythology]

3. Why only Republicans?

As the MeToo movement has shown, sexual harassment and violence isn't limited by political party or economic strata.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Thank you for saying this.

[Hortensis]

5. Or journalists and other opinion makers: Max Boot

stumbled over his own male bias in this morning's WaPo.

While egregious misconduct such as attempted rape should disqualify anyone from the nation’s highest court, we should be careful about interpreting a single ambiguous incident from high school in the worst possible light — lest we create a zero-defect standard that no human being can possibly attain.

Really, Max? What skeletons keep you from attaining that completely impossible standard?

[MaryMagdaline]

6. I was raised in the 60's and 70's

We were told every bad thing we did would go on our permanent record. I knew damn well I wasn’t going to be a Supreme Court Justice just for smoking pot in my youth. I knew I couldn’t be a prosecutor (I wasn’t going to lie about it). He knew full well he would never be fit for a judgeship. Sit down and shut up, Brett.

[brooklynite]

7. How about relying on actual evidence and accusations, rather than idle speculation?