The comparison is completely invalid. In the private sector how many people would know you were applying for a particular job? How many would care at all? How many private sector jobs have tens of thousands of people actively looking for a reason to prevent you from getting it? Of those tens of thousands that don't want you to get the job, how many would lie to stop you? Are dishonest enough to say "not one"? Are we going to pretend that liberals are such paragons of fair play that not one of them would lie to stop a "Nazi" from sitting on the Supreme Court?
So in other words Ford hatched a plot at least six years ago in order to derail this appointment? This is tinfoil hat conspiracy insanity. This isn’t a case where Democrats conspired to make a fake accusation, this is someone who has been speaking to people about this for more than half a decade and went to Feinstein before he was even selected. That’s a credible accusation by any reasonable standard.
You are literally arguing for a lower standard for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court than you would for a job as an office drone. Partisanship and this hearing have driven conservatives bananas. You guys have just lost all touch with reality and have gone into some paranoid persecution delusion.
Your entire premise is dishonest. This wasn't in any way a job interview, and the idea that an unsubstantiated accusation from decades in the past should derail it is insane. If that becomes the standard there will never be another presidential appointment. It gives every single person in the country the power to veto an appointment.
This was a job interview by any imaginable definition of the term. What else do you call it when people deciding if someone should get a paid position have that person come in and ask them questions?
It’s amazing how conservatives have whipped themselves up into a frenzy about this issue. Never be another presidential appointment? This is hysterical nonsense and you know it. You guys need to take a step back, take some deep breaths, and look at this rationally. All you need to know is this:
1) his accuser is credible. The idea that she invented this accusation six years ago to use against him is Ancient Aliens level conspiracy theorizing.
2) he repeatedly lied in his defense against the accusation.
That’s someone you reject from any job and certainly this one. Unfortunately people care more about tribe than country.
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