What Kavanaugh remembers about his high school years is in conflict with what he and others wrote in his high school yearbook, where he boasted about being a member of the “100 Keg” club and the “Renate Alumnius.” After his yearbook boasting came to light, some of the women who publicly supported him withdrew their names, including one who made a national television endorsement of his character. The woman identified as “Renate” was appalled to see what the members of the football team, including Kavanaugh, said about her.
“A few women who signaled support for Kavanaugh have pulled back that support. First there were the two Kavanaugh classmates who withdrew from a statement his lawyers issued disputing the claims of the second woman to come forward, Deborah Ramirez. Louisa Garry — who taped a commercial for Kavanaugh that was getting widespread TV airplay — and Dino Ewing contacted The New Yorker and requested that their names be removed, saying they do not “wish to dispute Ramirez’s claims.”
“And now there’s Renate Schroeder Dolphin, one of 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school and signed a letter to the Judiciary Committee saying “he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.” At least, that’s what she believed until she found out a few days ago that Kavanaugh and his high school football buddies boasted of sexual conquests with her, mentioning her name at least 14 times in their yearbook, calling themselves “Renate Alumni.”
“They were very disrespectful, at least verbally, with Renate,” Sean Hagan, a Georgetown Prep student at the time, told The New York Times. “I can’t express how disgusted I am with them, then and now.” Dolphin has changed her tune: “I can’t begin to comprehend what goes through the minds of 17-year-old boys who write such things, but the insinuation is horrible, hurtful, and simply untrue. I pray their daughters are never treated this way.”

I think Kavanaugh, and all men like him, when the evidence is overwhelming that they acted like he did when he was a teen and in college, should be forced to go through the surgical transition from male to female. I don’t care if it is involuntary or not.
“How to Transition from Male to Female (Transgender)”
https://www.wikihow.com/Transition-from-Male-to-Female-(Transgender)
Only after all steps are completed including vaginoplasty, should someone like Kavanaugh be considered for release back to society.
If this punishment became law, I suspect most men in the GOP would soon be transgender women, forced or voluntary. I wonder if that would change their perception of their place in the world.
But what would we do with someone like Besty DeVos – use surgery to turn her into a man?
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Why would you wish these lowlifes on us females? Are they supposed to be so horrified at the thought of being female that they will “repent their sins,” or is it supposed to make them wonder whether some other low life will take advantage of them?
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It’s not a laughing matter but since he is a man on his birth certificate, after he finishes becoming a woman, let him spend a few weeks in an all male prison.
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What sort of school allows students to put this kind of thing in a yearbook!?!? Well, that’s obvious enough, isn’t it?
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To be fair to the school, I don’t think schools monitor what students write in already published yearbooks after they have been delivered to the students that bought them. Imagine how many monitors there would have to be to do that – one for each student following them around and watching over their shoulders as they wrote comments in each other’s yearbooks.
I don’t think the 1st Amendment would allow that to happen – at least in real public schools, but it might happen at Hillsdale college where future CEOs and want-to-be autocrats are programmed to think they have the power of a god with God’s backing.
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It was not a comment written in an already-published yearbook. It was in the yearbook itself. See the NYT article – it shows a picture of the page.
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Here is the link to the New York Times story, which shows the yearbook pages, including Kavanaugh’s entry.
Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/09/25/business/25YEARBOOK02/25YEARBOOK02-superJumbo-v4.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
On Brett’s entry, he specifically lists “100 kegs or Bust” and “Renate Alumnius”among his accomplishments.
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You are correct. I didn’t see all the comments that said that crap was printed in the yearbook during publication until after I left my comment.
The fact that comments like that were allowed to be published in the yearbook also reveals the mindset of the administrators and teachers at that private, religious school.
The 1st Amendment has already been tested in court when applied to schools and schools do have some flexibility to censor potential libelous and/or slanderous material like those comments. And private schools have more power to censor than public schools, so the question should be why were those comments allowed?
Was it intentional or was there a teacher in charge who was not doing their job properly?
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One of the most disgusting things is that on another yearbook page, Kavanaugh a group of his pals — including the infamous Mark Judge — took a photo of the “Renate club”.
A group of boys posed together for a photo as proud members of the “Renate club”.
I really want an explanation from Kavanaugh under oath about how this was all part of the respect he showed women and never ever veered from.
Mark Judge should be forced to testify under oath.
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The Republicans refuse to issue a subpoena to Mark Judge.
In his writings, he brags about his life as an alcoholic and a skirt-chaser.
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The old white men on the Judiciary Committee plan to bring a female prosecutor to harangue Blasey Ford.
I wonder if her lawyers will be allowed to question Brett K.
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Is it possible to capture a computer image of that yearbook page and add a description/explanation of what it means so we can share it on the internet and make it go viral?
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Heavy.com
5 things you should know about Renate.
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Imagine if the Stanford swimmer who raped an unconscious woman was allowed to be tried with the strict conditions that the ONLY people who could testify were the swimmer and the accuser.
The rapist would not have been convicted.
That is how the Republicans want this hearing to go. They insist that the only two people who can be heard are the accuser and the accused. They are determined that be the entire hearing.
If those had been the rules during the Stanford swimmer’s trial, he would have walked away scot free to rape an unconscious woman again.
Republican Senators are desperate to allow Kavanaugh to walk away. If they weren’t terrified that witnesses would reveal the truth of the matter, they would not insist that there be none.
I am shocked at what the Republicans can get away with. Anyone who is not getting out to vote for whoever the Democrat is in November is complicit in this. These people must be stopped.
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The Republican Party is clearly without doubt revealing they are the minion agents of autocrats, mean and false evangelicals that all, without exception, worship greed and the power they have hijacked with their wealth and lies.
This is exactly the thinking and behavior of the ruling class in France that deservedly felt the wrath of the mob when the guillotine’s blade slid down to chop off their heads.
This is the fetid garbage that causes bloody civil wars and revolutions.
If the GOP gets away with this, I think it is time to stock up on rations, medication, water, ammo and flack jackets.
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Ha, that was the first thing that went through my mind, too. My old public school certainly never would have allowed it.
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This was/is allowed to happen and everyone chooses to ignore. This was/is about rich “brats” thinking that they can get away with everything because their parents have immense wealth. It’s about feeling superior because of money….. being born into a “different” class of people. They don’t have to follow the rules that everyone else does AND they like to make the rules so that they always have the advantage. Don’t even get me started on the behavior of the “embassy brats” that live in the area….diplomatic immunity covers a lot of offenses.
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How horrible for Renate. How awful that she signed the letter attesting to his “character,” not knowing that he boasted that she was one of his sexual conquests.
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Republican women ride the band wagon of the politicians that their husbands tell them to support.
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What more do we know? What did she think of the yearbook when it was first published? Had she merely forgotten or had she never seen it?
In response to this part:
” At least, that’s what she believed until she found out a few days ago
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I assume she never saw the yearbook until now.
She withdrew her testimonial to Brett’s character after she saw the disgusting words that Brett and his classmates used about her.
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These comments were written privately into the year book by hand after it was published. They were hand written notes that kids write to their friends, such as, “Have a great life!” “Best friends forever!” etc. The faculty monitors or advisers would not allow such comments to actually be published; they would be sued by the parents of the girls being demeaned.
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No, this was part of his official, printed write-up in yearbook.
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If these insults were published in the yearbooks before they were released to students that bought them, then no one in administration cared or thought it was something they had to censor.
Remember the 1st Amendment.
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“Renata Alumnius” was published in the actual yearbook, not just written as a private comment.
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Joe,
You are incorrect. Check your sources. The comments were printed, not handwritten. The girl was unaware of the comments until a few days ago. Maybe her parents would have sued if they had known. But they did not know. The yearbook was published with 14 entries about the young woman and neither she nor her folks knew anything about it until recently. Google and find a source with screen shots of the printed yearbook entries. They are not handwritten individual notes.
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No, they were not handwritten. The printed excerpts appeared in the Washington Post.
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Whoops, sorry. I stand corrected.
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Lesson learned, never make assumptions. I just could not imagine a faculty adviser allowing such stuff to pass through to the printed version of the year book. I can’t enter into the WaPo web site but the NYT’s site did have a photo of the page and the comment in print. That was my last freebie for the NYT for this month. Thanks for the correction.
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Thank you, Diane. Like Kavanaugh I am a graduate (with honors) of an all- male Catholic high school. But I was fortunate to also have attended a public high school for three summers in order to play in the concert band and take extra classes so that I could finish high school kin three years. That back and forth between a Catholic and a public high school allows me to generalize that the coeducational public school was superior to the Catholic school, more respectful, more adult. A better school culture. That experience inclines me to believe Dr. Ford’s allegations rather than Kavanaugh’s lame story.
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On Fox Kavanaugh claimed he was a virgin up through and well past college. All that has to be done now is find one woman who had sex with him, consensual or otherwise, and he’s clearly outed as a liar.
But then again, numerous people (including men, whom we all know are more trustworthy, ahem) have claimed to have seen Kavanaugh falling down drunk, but he also claimed in the same interview never to have been that drunk, so we already know he’s a liar.
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It’s possible that he stayed a virgin due to his heavy drinking. Not that he wanted to be a virgin.
Maybe very drunk, he couldn’t perform no matter how desperate he was or how “hard” he tried. No pun intended.
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Most those dudes in HS were a bunch of braggerts, nothing more. Except for a few who would do shit like what Kavanaugh is accused. I never saw it happen but heard about it and thought that usually it was in character for the asshole that supposedly did it.
Now when it comes to college. . . That’s where really ugly abusive stuff took place, especially in the fraternities. Again, I never saw any of it because I refused to be a part of that system, but having played college hockey, which the majority of the players were in frats and having known quite a few others who lived in frats, I can say that what I heard the frat boys brag about thoroughly disgusted me. And yes, it was the “boys being boys” elite boy syndrome. It bothered me then and has ever since-very sick dudes. And now some of them attempt to defend Kavanaugh on other forums. Sad.
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I’ve never been an apologist and/or advocate of “boys will be boys”. That is a lame excuse to let boys run wild in ways that destroy the lives of others.
Boys will be whatever parents and society lets them get away with and once the boys know they have a free pass, they will push beyond the limits.
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So true Lloyd and unfortunately as a society we have allowed some boys (usually elite white ones) a free pass and they have pushed it beyond the limits.
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Another example of wealth & privilege being used in awful ways.
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Step back and see that the Democrats are playing a dangerous game with Trump and with most things, including Kavanaugh. One day they will be back in control and the GOP will return all the favors. Let’s go back to the childhoods of all the Dem House and Senate members and the members of the future Dem administrations and see what we find.
The Dems would be much better off presenting their policy proposals and arguing about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy rather than talking endlessly about Trump’s taxes, Russia, high school yearbooks, etc.
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Disagree. When a person is about to be confirmed for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, becoming the swing vote to roll back Roe v. Wade, civil rights, gay rights, environmental regulation, while expanding the power of the President (Kavanaugh believes [now] that the president should never be subject to investigation because he’s too busy)…that person’s character must be reviewed. The same holds true regardless of party.
Lesson: don’t commit crimes when you are young. When you are found out, tell the truth.
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He is currently a federal judge. Surprised you don’t see any politics at play. My point remains that the Republicans will respond in kind on every level when the roles reverse. All it does is undermine our entire system. Some might say the GOP already did this with Clinton and Obama, but the Democrats have clearly taken it to new heights.
Aren’t the taxpayers currently funding former President Clinton’s office to the tune of millions (as we are all former presidents)? Haven’t several women accused him of raping them? If we are going to have the FBI investigating episodes allegedly occurring 35 years ago I say, as a taxpayer, that I want Clinton investigated and should they turn up evidence of criminality I want funding for his office cut off.
Those of us who follow politics trace the current hand to hand combat over a SCOTUS appointment to Robert Bork. Remember him? Ted Kennedy took the the floor of the US Senate within minutes to accuse him of being the most despicable human being who would trample the Constitution and the rights of millions of Americans.
Yes, this is the same Senator Kennedy that was lionized by Democrats despise his horrific record with women, including the role he played in the death of a young woman who was not his wife in the middle of the night.
I’m sorry but I do not see virtue in the Democratic Party. I am the first one to see faults in the Republican Party on many issues, especially education. But too many Democrats overlook the scoundrels and poor public policies (especially on education) of their own party. It is hard for me to take them seriously because of this.
I am not directing this at you Diane. I read what you write very closely. I understand where you are coming from.
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The world’s been forced to “take seriously” the Republican clown President and his overhaul of the Republican Party making it the party of Trump, as former Speaker Boehner described the situation.
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Kavanaugh appears to be guilty of several things: misleading Congress is one of the most important. And he shows no interest whatever in having a full interest investigation of charges made recently by more than one woman.
I am furious that a person like this has been nominated to the Supreme Court
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The misleading of Congress is very germaine to the process. My other main concern is the withholding of vital records of his work while in the government, records that should be public, or at least made available to the senators that have to vote on this guy. Which might show even more “misleading” of Congress in prior testimony. To not have his complete record out is to be blindly voting on someone about whom one only has about at most 25% of the information needed.
Add these abusive past actions to the mix and well, it’s a no brainer to vote no on his confirmation.
But the xtian fundie far right of which this guy is a part is a very deceitful bunch in attempting to institute an extian theocracy in this country as they believe is their god’s mandate. They indeed are a danger to this country.
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Oh please, I’m hardly an ardent Democrat, but even I can tell your post is full of _________. Have you ever heard the name Merrick Garland? Are you aware that the Repubs blocked nearly all of Obama’s appointments? And now you think this is going to come back to bite the Democrats in the butt? I think you need to look at what’s biting whom in the butt.
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I think what you wrote here is utter nonsense.
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Dienne,
I’ve seen plenty of public school teachers that hail from the far xtian fundie right and had to be totally watched so that they wouldn’t try to indoctrinate the students in their xtian fundie ways. And they did it in very subtle, as close to the legal edge as possible, sometimes crossing over. And yes, I called them out for that crap more than once. I suspect this “furious teacher” is one of that type.
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A Furious Teacher,
Democrats are fine with having accusations against their politicians fully investigated. I am glad that Ken Starr was given unlimited subpoena power and time to investigate the charges against Clinton. Al Franken requested a full investigation of the charges against him.
Democrats aren’t scared. If both sides are given the same ability to cross examine witnesses under oath and call whomever they want, that is a fair process.
The Republicans don’t want a fair process. They want a double standard. Far right wing entitled Republican men must always be believed without any investigation and any friends who submit statements must be taken at their word and not cross examined.
How dare you suggest that seriously charges not be allowed to be properly investigated? That is the kind of thing right wing Republicans say. When it is one of their own. Otherwise, they say even a dozen Benghazi investigations are not sufficient.
Stop being a hypocrite.
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This post made me happy that I attended an all girls high school. There were no boys to impress or to overshadow the young women. Young women never had to compete for or yield to men. We had to carry the ball in order for the school to function. The absence of young males allowed the girls to flourish without any pressure to assume the typical male and female roles. Perhaps the experience made us a little socially awkward, but it allowed us to develop and grow without feeling the need to be the object of young men’s attention. We did not have to face our patriarchal society until we were mature enough to handle it. The first week of my co-ed college experience I remember feeling angry when one of the male professors stated that the women in the college were “shopping for husbands.” As for that social awkwardness, it has not held back Gloria Allred, who is also an alumna from my high school.
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I was a freshman in college in 1970. If I had a nickel for every time someone asked if my major was “MRS. degree” I could have paid my tuition that year. It was considered funny rather to ask that question. I heard it from both males and females.
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I understand that benefit, RT. But at the same time, having attended an all-boys Catholic high school (certainly not of the elite variety) I believe that same-sex exclusive high schools are not a healthy environment for either sex. My sister went to an all girls Catholic High School and she regretted it for a number of different reasons which I didn’t find out about until recently. We both became public school teachers and sent our children to public schools. We must all learn to live together in the world and probably the optimal time to learn how to interact with members of the other sex is during high school. I am not a supporter of same sex high schools. They are an anachronism that needs to die out.
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As far as “certainly not of the elite variety” you all should realize that in St. Louis in the 60s & 70s when I attended that around 40-45% of the students attended Catholic schools. And there were different socioeconomic levels of those Catholic schools. The grade school and high school I attended were on the low end of the SES scale with the dads (yes mainly dads back then) working construction, maintenance or owning small businesses-mechanical, electrical, plumbing or like my dad who worked by himself in his shop repairing industrial shoe and sewing machinery (back when there was an actual shoe industry in this country).
Now, although I’ve not seen any recent stats I’d say the percentage probably hovers around 20-25% as many Catholic schools have closed and/or consolidated and many parishes struggle to survive not even having their own dedicated priest. The Marianist high school I attended doesn’t have a single brother or priest (they don’t have nuns). None. Even though I grew up in that Catholic system I say let it die, but it won’t as the elite Catholic schools will continue to survive and exist with some having huge legacy bank accounts which they somehow manage to keep from the local papal authority-the St. Louis Archdiocese. And yes, the Catholic system in St. Louis has historically been very white!
I give this background so that one might contrast the East Coast elite prep type schools with some of the somewhat more modest Midwest schools-although there are still some of the elite type around.
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I had the misfortune of going to an all boys NYC public high school. Guess I missed out on advantages of classy (no doubt all white) prep schooling. Unlike Kavanaugh’s, our yearbooks didn’t have such rich descriptive and cryptic words next to our pictures. My under-privileged friends and I didn’t have “assaults” and “boofing” next to our names. Just the service squads and school-related clubs we were part of. Dull, you know.
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I can tell you that at the all-boys Catholic high school that I attended the faculty advisor would have never let anything like what is in that yearbook get through.
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I liked to post discussing coed public schools vs. segregated private schools. We need to learn to get along early in life.
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Give us your thoughts please, Susan.
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Typo correction: the post
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Related- Talking Points Memo reports,”Cody Wilson-Founder of 3-D printed guns resigns amid child sexual assault charges.” The Ark. Times wrote that Wilson contributed to Ted Cruz’ campaign often. I hope this news puts a nail in the coffin of Ted’s plan to return to D.C.
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A superb piece in the Washington Post, today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/25/what-brett-kavanaugh-should-have-said/?utm_term=.d2bf73af8684
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Either Kavanaugh is lying about being a virgin or he lied about Renate? The latter smeared a young girl’s reputation similar to Ed Whelan’s attempt to destroy an innocent man’s reputation to give Kavanaugh cover. There’s nothing to salvage in terms of the character of those in privileged D.C. circles.
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He’s trying to pretend that the Renata thing is all just about an innocent kiss. Renata is saying they never kissed. I fear she may be one of Kavanaugh’s victims (along with the other members of the “club”, very likely at the same time), but she was probably too drunk to remember it or too humiliated to admit it. I feel very bad for her.
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An innocent kiss for Renate?
I doubt it.
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And given that Kavanaugh’s first excuse was that it was “mistaken identity”, his good friend’s attempt to pin it on another classmate is rather ugly.
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Randy Raibow’s take:
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The total is up to 6-7 people who have told media that they personally witnessed Kavanaugh as a sloppy, incoherent drunk. Just what the nation needs- Steve Bannon, Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.
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If a guy goes to a high school in Appalachia and to Bubba College, and fellow students come forward, when he’s famous, to tell stories about him, we could possibly discount what they say. But, the people indicting Brett have nothing to gain and everything to lose in the rarefied circles he inhabits.
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