It is time for the sleazy sexist pig, Brett Kavanaugh to go away

According to NBC News Senate Republicans don’t yet have the votes to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And they shouldn’t. This whole thing is a no-brainer. And Kavanaugh is a sleazy scumbag who disrespects women.

If just one person was making the accusation their might be some doubt as to whether or not Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth or not. By now some people have stepped forward to collaborate her story of being sexual assaulted during their high school years. On top of that a second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has charged that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her and shoved his penis in her face while they played a drinking game in a dorm room along with other classmates at Yale University. The first argument Kavanaugh and his supporters raised is that it was only high school, many years ago. Now he is accused of bad behavior in his college years, as a full adult.

This is not a trial to determine guilt or innocence. Kavanaugh is trying to be the next US Supreme Court Judge. The question is “does he qualify for that job?” That is a sensitive job and it affects a lot of people.

The Republicans have an agenda to put someone on the bench who can overturn Roe v. Wadeand after that, make all abortions completely illegal. That goal is important enough that they are doing anything they can to ram Kavanaugh through the process before the next round of elections. If they can’t get him on the bench before the elections they may lose some control of the Senate and that would make it impossible to get someone as conservative as Kavanaugh on the court.   

Leading the pack of die-hard Kavanaugh supporters is Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. From NBC News:

President Donald Trump has the same attitude and that is not surprising since he was exposed during his own election campaign as bragging that he can grope women without permission because he is such a rich celebrity. We already know that Trump is a sexist pig. Now other Republicans are willing to take the chance that they will be perceived that way. And these are people who face elections at some point in time. The sexist pig perception may turn a lot of female voters away from voting for them.

Some Republicans may not vote for Kavanaugh. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona have been the most public Republicans signaling indecision. Two of these are women. McConnell, Trump and Kavanaugh appear to be a throw-back to the perception of “good ol’ boys” who feel that boys will be boys. But women especially don’t like that attitude. And Flake may actually have a conscience. He may actually care about doing the right thing and what is fair for this country.

It is bad enough that the Republicans have found such a far-to-the-right-wing prick for such an important job. There is nothing illegal about putting such a right-wing person on the Supreme Court. But sexual assault is not legal. And swinging a man’s penis in the face of a woman against her will is certainly not the kind of behavior that we can or should tolerate from a Supreme Court Justice.

Besides being a right-wing prick, Kavanaugh is a sexist pig and he does not belong on the Supreme Court. This charade needs to go and Kavanaugh needs to go.