This is pathetic

[Sandpebble]

Well I started the thread so.....getting back on track I think the guy is an emotional train wreck. Just my opinion from what I observed and frankly I think he could have some serious mental issues.

Well Jim... getting back on track I believe you are correct . Lawyers have a pattern of questioning and it appears he has forgotten that training as it seems easy to get him emotional .

Emotion isn't a good quality in a judge...

Unbelievable as it may sound... I was neither for nor against him being accepted

But then he told the story of his 10 yr old daughter saying her prayers and wanted to pray for the lady accusing him ....... and I knew.

Not only emotional... he's another story teller

[togor]

Well I started the thread so.....getting back on track I think the guy is an emotional train wreck. Just my opinion from what I observed and frankly I think he could have some serious mental issues.

Good observation. Emotional volatility and alcohol affinity have been known to go together.

[JohnPeeff]

Well since you have brought up Winston Churchill, he was known to get emotional and volatile
















Well since you brought up Winston Churchill, he was known to get emotional and definitley had an affinity to alcohol!

[togor]

Yes Churchill and alcohol.

[Johnny P]

Hey, at least some good may come of this. Angry Black Spartacus said he would be no part of it, but I just have a feeling he was only kidding and will be back. They never keep their word. Angry Black Spartacus and Angry Black Camala are trying to out anger each other for the Presidency.

[dryheat]

It's a given, there will be more excitable people in office.

[S.A. Boggs]

I watched the full hearing from a clinicians viewpoint and made some observations. I believe she is telling her truth but is it reality? There have been many cases in the past ten years of a rape victim being wrong when DNA proves that the accused is not guilty. Yet, the rape victim refuses to believe the evidence because her reality is implanted into a false memory. The Judge does not get off scot free either as I don't believe about his younger days drinking. The age at which a person becomes an alcoholic freezes the persons emotional maturity. Is he an alcoholic or a functional alcoholic, only his family is sure of this. I understand his emotional outburst, I see nothing odd here. Patton had similar outbursts and functioned quite well in his context.
I looked at his life pattern and found an achiever who strives to do his best, that is commendable. In the id, ego, superego/altruistic scale I rate the judge in the later category which is fine. There is no pattern of negativity in his adult life, if he was as other's described there would be some pattern shown...none is. The old saying that a leopard doesn't change his spots is often true.
If the FBI would run the same type of background on his accuser, what would the report find? Personally in this case I feel that this is warranted considering her accusation and possible "revenge" setting considering what happened to her parents and any political context?
Unless something is found, which is possible, I see no reason to not place the judge on the high court bench.
Sam

[Jiminvirginia]

Sam I can't really argue with your professional assessment. Still, for what we may get on the bench I do not feel it is worth the extra baggage that would come with his appointment. I contend, or hope, that there are better choices out there.

[S.A. Boggs]

Sam I can't really argue with your professional assessment. Still, for what we may get on the bench I do not feel it is worth the extra baggage that would come with his appointment. I contend, or hope, that there are better choices out there.

There could be other better choices, however this is the guy in the batters box. Unless he is struck out, I see him advancing towards home plate in a home run! As for extra baggage WE ALL CARRY EXTRA thru out our life in some context. I was a white, male, conservative working in a female, mixed race, liberal atmosphere and did quite well until my illness. Unless the FBI finds some reason to deny him the appointment, give the man the benefit of the doubt. This is a Republic governed by a Constitution not a Democracy of popularity polls. Oppose the man because he is unfit to serve due to a legal negative, not because you oppose his being a Constitutionalist.
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

Sam I can't really argue with your professional assessment. Still, for what we may get on the bench I do not feel it is worth the extra baggage that would come with his appointment. I contend, or hope, that there are better choices out there.

We can't say -- his qualifications were never really examined in the rush to convict him of something that happened in high school (and probably NEVER happened.)

[togor]

Judges do the rope-a-dope now during confirmation hearings. One has to rely on past rulings and writings to get a sense of how they'll be on the bench. Although K. did give us a glimpse of how he is when things aren't going his way.

[Bill D]

. . . .Although K. did give us a glimpse of how he is when things aren't going his way.

Then I suppose you’ll have to agree that Ms. Clinton shouldn’t have been elected for the same reason(s)?

[dryheat]

"It's ruined his life" If he was innocent it wouldn't.

I've always thought it would be fun to be arrested on some false charge. Well, in America anyway. I've been accused and have stood my ground,
and my accusers have backed down.
I have no fear(well, anything can go wrong) of being arrested falsely. It's never going to happen anyway;
Reason being, I'm a regular normal guy. Now when you hear about convicts that are released because of false imprisonment,
it's because they were arrested numerous times before(round up the usual suspects ring a bell?). It was about time they got sent up.
It's not hard to be guilty. Your past has a velocity that you can't outrun(I like that one, it's mine). It's how you handle it I guess.

[Roadkingtrax]

Judges do the rope-a-dope now during confirmation hearings. One has to rely on past rulings and writings to get a sense of how they'll be on the bench. Although K. did give us a glimpse of how he is when things aren't going his way.

We may have a reason for the 'ol rush on Brett. Wonder how deep that dark money goes? People are scared and acting unhinged.


Orrin Hatch, the Supreme Court, and Trump's Pardons - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/

[clintonhater]

I've always thought it would be fun to be arrested on some false charge.

Put that question to the many men arrested and/or convicted on a phony rape charge, where the "women don't lie" theory was the only "proof" of the alleged crime.

I previously listed several individual cases of such charges eventually proven untrue, but not before several men had already been imprisoned. There are all sorts of statistics of sex-crime victims, but none for men falsely accused, because they don't count--merely collateral damage in the left's war against men. Therefor to find their stories, it's necessary to search "man wrongly convicted, man falsely accused, rape charge dismissed," etc., & even then more such cases are surely missed than found.