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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAunt Lydia Collins fell for the 'someone else did it' bs that Bart O'Kavy may have created himself
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/susan-collins-brett-kavanaugh-assault-ford/Appearing on CNN this morning Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she believes that Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaultedjust not by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. I do believe that she was assaulted. I dont know by whom, and Im not certain when, but I do not believe he was the assailant, Collins told Dana Bash on State of the Union. The Maine senator came on the program to explain why she had voted to confirm Kavanaugh in spite of Fords allegation that he had sexually assaulted her when they he was a teenager.
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The notion that Ford misremembers what exactly happened to her 37 years agoincluding who attacked her and where and when it occurredhas become a popular talking point among Kavanaughs conservative backers. The theory took hold following a series of tweets (since deleted) by Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in which he spun out a scenario in which Ford was assaulted by a boy who resembled Kavanaugh. In response, Ford said, There is zero chance that I would confuse them.
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In fact, Whelan withdrew his little story and apologized for it, mostly because they tried to identify falsely another classmate as the actual attacker. It still made it to the GrOPer talking points/lies.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17886430/brett-kavanaugh-news-ed-whelan-trump
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Aunt Lydia Collins fell for the 'someone else did it' bs that Bart O'Kavy may have created himself (Original Post)
deminks
Oct 2018
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. She doesn't 'believe'... jesus on a crutch
Does she 'believe' in global warming?
Does she 'believe' the ice is melting?>
Does she 'believe' ...........
eh forget it...
what a moran......
shanny
(6,709 posts)2. Nah, that's just her figleaf. She always has one...
Last edited Sun Oct 7, 2018, 02:06 PM - Edit history (1)
eta: btw, why would this be "the hardest vote she has ever taken" if she believes Blasey Ford was mistaken?
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)3. No she didn't fall for anything.
She's a money grubbing, self-absorbed, right wing snake.
Edit: BTW "Aunt Lydia Collins" is perfection.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)4. It's about damn time people stopped giving her the benefit of the doubt and treating her like
some kind of gullible victim
Susan Collins has always been a conniver and a fraud.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)5. Exactly
delisen
(6,044 posts)6. Collins Smokescreen. husband lobbyist,Russia ties, meetings with Bush
She is simply lying about her reasons; same mo she has used before. ///////////////she is either naive or corrupt and she has served too long in government to be naive.
I want to do everything I can to support Maine Democrats in taking her seat in 2020.
I would like to see a complete profile of Collins because she is not upfront about who she is and that allows her to continue lying.