I genuinely did not realize some conservatives had adopted the position that Kavanaugh is “100% innocent”

I thought it was more: the evidence is too flimsy to say for sure and he has strong credentials and we can’t deny an appointment based on one claim

— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) October 4, 2018

This is not surprising. At first, they were upset that Kavanaugh was being accused without any corroborating evidence.

Then, after Ford’s very credible testimony, they weren’t sure - Maybe he did it. Certainly, Ford’s sincerely believes he did. They could fall back on ‘innocent until proven guilty’, but in the end they knew that maybe, just maybe, they were going to elevate to the Supreme Court, a guy who threw a 15 year old girl on a bed and sexually assaulted her. That made them uncomfortable, that they couldn’t be certain.

Because the Conservative mindset is unable to tolerate uncertainty, they were not able maintain that uncertainty. It had to be one way, or the other. So, over time, they inevitably became certain that Ford was lying, that Kavanaugh was 100% innocent. The discomfort went away, replaced by the comforting certainty of being attacked by those evil Liberals.