Josh Marshall can lead you through the bizarre Twitter theory advanced by Ed Whelan last night. Basically, he puts forward a theory - based on the merest conjecture - that Prof. Blassey-Ford's attacked was not Brett Kavanaugh, but a classmate named Chris Garrett. Whelan lays out the elaborate theory in a way that he must have been very proud of, but the Twitterati was less than impressed.
First, Whelan's theory is full of holes and logical fallacies. Second, it's almost certainly libelous, as he suggests that Chris Garrett is a rapist without a shred of proof, beyond his desire to exonerate Kavanaugh.
Most importantly - as Marshall points out - Whelan isn't Alex Jones or some dirty blogger. He's a very plugged in member of the Conservative Legal Apparatus that includes the Federalist Soceity. He's a friend of Kavanaugh's, too. This isn't out of left field. This is the plan. Rather than attack Blassey-Ford the way Anita Hill was attacked, they will simply say that she was attacked by someone else. Almost certainly, Kavanaugh approved of this - or at least knew about it in advance and refused to stop it.
Brett Kavanaugh is at least tacitly OK with smearing Chris Garrett as a rapist, if it allows him to get onto the Supreme Court.
There is nothing that we have learned about his character - regardless of the truth of the allegations against him - that suggests this man deserves a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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