[quote]What the hell happened to innocent until proven guilty?[/quote] 1. This is not a criminal prosecution. Kavanaugh isn't looking at being sent to prison, so the presumption of "innocence" does not really apply here. 2. You guys REALLY need to drop this notion of EVERYONE but MY guy is lying. Because it really makes you look-and-sound like you're crazy...and that you refuse to operate in a fact based universe. I was prepared to let this whole thing leave a bad taste in my mouth and chalk it all up to "Anita Hill 2.0" when it was simply ONE accuser and it was "He said/She said". But now we are up to 4 accusers, and the notion that four women would just **suddenly** start telling the same lie about the guy are slim to none. It took me---as a guy----DECADES to understand why women hesitate to come forward....but (with all due respect) YOUR REACTION is precisely why the dont'. They don't think they'll be believed. They believe they'll be attacked and (further shamed and humiliated) if its a person of power or priviliege that they are accusing (Ford is getting death threats). So they feel its just easier to stay quiet and suffer in silence. But what almost always happens in these situations is that someone who is willing to behave like that once....usually has a pattern of such behavior...and when ONE victim shows the courage to suffer the public backlash, this emboldens others who were his victims to come forward as well. 3. Things aren't witch hunts when they turn up actual evil doers. 4. This is a man who is about to be offered a job with a LIFE TIME APPOINTMENT (he can only be removed from office via IMPEACHMENT....like a President)....who will decide many issues that govern the lives of minorities and women for the next generation. Including if women will decide what they do with their bodies....or whether RELIGION will decide for them. ...and some of us are not comfortable with someone having that power, who now has four women accusing him of not respecting their basic human rights to be free from violence. So at this point he is disqualified from the position in my opinion...despite my initial wish to give him the benefit of the doubt. Also I can't feel much in the way of sympathy for him since he never would have been in this position if he hadn't been willing to take a position that had been stolen from the previous President. Worst case scenario.....Democrats had a Supreme Court appointment stolen from them through shameless political hardball (Republicans blocked the process, then as soon as they were in power removed the ability of Democrats to do the same to them). So now Democrats are returning the favor in a season where it looks like they will win back the Senate. Either you respect the process...or you don't. It doesn't go "YOU need to respect the process, while WE do whatever the -blam!- we want".