... Personally destroying a person's career, family, and life over a political appointment with flimsy at best accusations is wrong.
I totally agree.
If Blasey-Ford is lying, let's (metaphorically) crucify her in the law-courts.
If Franken(fein)stein was complicit in advancing a lie, let's (metaphorically) crucify her in the law-courts, too.
But's let's find out if that's truly the case, or if Kavanaugh is hiding something, first.
Lets be sure.
Let's be damned sure.
The best way to do that, is to have the FBI reopen its background investigation(s) on Kavanaugh, and for the FBI to amend its findings.
Even if it's on a hurried, 3-day-Anita-Hill -style snapshot basis.
Better than nothing.
Simple.
The Republicans are setting themselves up for terrible election-year optics, should they fail to do that small thing.
Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, or fair or unfair.
Politics is all about perception.
Perception relies largely upon optics.
If you have terrible optics, you trigger terrible perceptions.
You give your opponent an early Christmas gift - tons of ammunition to use against you in an election year.
Fail to re-open the investigation into Kavanaugh's background at your own very great peril.
Both with respect to the upcoming election for control of the House and Senate, and with respect to any future SCOTUS impeachment.
The democrats had 6 weeks to look into it prior to Feinstein purposefully dragging Dr. Ford into this.
In that time, if Ford was to be believed, Feinstein could have hired any number of Private Detectives, many are former FBI agents, and get some facts to at least tie the victim to the Judge.
Problem is, she likely did, and they came up with nothing. It wouldn't take an FBI investigation to produce, at least a minimal amount of facts on the dude.
When that fails, as is often the case in actual police investigations, the Law Enforcement agency doing the investigation will seek the public's assistance, and Feinstein did by leaking the name. From that they hope to garner information. At this point the Dem's have gotten a grand total of a single lead, and that from someone in Mexico who within hours retracted her statement.
This is a crap show and a waste of time and money.
Let her speak, but unless she brings up FACTS to back her allegations, then it needs to be considered an unfounded allegation and proceed to a speedy vote.
She, Feinstein and the Democrats have had due time to produce damning evidence, and have failed. That's on them and nobody else.