Best analysis I've read of the entire fiasco...
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Story Has "Collapsed"; She Gave "One Too Many Narratives"
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Coming into where we are today, she wasn't able to locate the supposed assault or the time or the date and she had the early 80s, the mid-80s, the late 80s, she was a young teenager, a little bit older. But I think there was a lot of doubt. Then we've had the collapse of the 5th accuser, 6th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd -- [Julie] Swetnick, [Deborah] Ramirez - that didn't help. And now we have the boyfriend coming forward and her own testimonies where she admitted that she flies regularly, that's corroborated by the boyfriend.
The two-door thing. People in Palo Alto have two doors for one purpose, not because they are claustrophobic because they want to get extra income and renter come in and that seems to be true for her.
I think the tragedy though, Laura, I don't think she'd ever think she'd have to come forward at all. She would write this anonymous writ and then that would sort of float out and cast doubt and that might just panic the Republicans and Kavanaugh would withdraw.
It's sad because she gave one too many narratives. She gave a narrative to the therapist. She gave a narrative to Dianne Feinstein. She gave a narrative to 'The Washington Post.' She gave a narrative through her testimony. She butted up against a pretty seasoned prosecutor. And those narratives cannot be reconciled, they are mutually exclusive. They contradict each other. Whether it's on the lie detector or the circumstances about flying or particular names that are supposed to corroborate. Here we are, it's collapsed.
Hanson responded to those who say Ford is incredibly believable:
HANSON: You can be sincere, maybe, empathetic, but it has nothing to do with reason and logic and credibility. She wasn't credible and I think the fact that she was empathetic and sincere only gets you so far. In a weird way, Cory Booker was right when he said this doesn't matter anymore because we're into the realm not of legality anymore. It's not about Kavanaugh. It's not about Trump. It's about raw sheer politics in the arena.
And the Democrats are saying, you know what, we lost the Senate, we've lost the House, we've lost the presidency, we're going to lose the Supreme Court. We have no other trajectory to get this progressive agenda so we're going to bet the farm so to speak that we're going to use revolutionary tactics. And now this election is a referendum on whether you believe you can swarm a Senator or you can get in the face of a Senator in the elevator or bother somebody in a restaurant...
Are you for due process or are you for revolutionary fervor? Are you for reason or are you for emotion? Are you for this street antics that Antifa brought into the Senate or are you for custom and practice of the U.S. Congress?
There is one other element. I think that they are really angry because it's kind of a self-inflicted wound. Barack Obama set that precedent: 'I won, elections matter.' Okay, that's what a president does when he wins. He picks people. Joe Biden, 30 years ago, never in his right mind thought that the Senate Judiciary Committee would be controlled by Republicans that there would be a lame duck Democrat when he made the Biden rule. Finally, Harry Reid never thought they would take the Senate, that the Republicans would, it's all come back.
Victor Davis Hanson: Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Story Has "Collapsed"; She Gave "One Too Many Narratives"
