re: #510 jaunte
Avenatti AND Trump were side issues in this. The Republicans wanted to push Kavanaugh through, so they did, despite his inadequacies.
To bottom line this, a SCOTUS nomination is always an ordeal for the nominee. Kavanaugh’s ordeal was worse than most, perhaps fairly, perhaps unfairly.
So he was tested, and Kavanaugh failed that test at last week’s hearing.
The weepy and abusive Kavanaugh of that hearing, ranting about Democrats and the Clintons, and vowing partisan revenge is the real man. His judicial career is the mask