Brett Kavanaugh, by his own admission, was an ill-supervised teenager of oft-vacationing professional parents, who engaged in illegal underage drinking and partying to the point of bragging in print -- "100 Kegs or Bust!" -- about his first drinking club.
Not allegations, his own admissions: What happened -- Kavanaugh lectured later -- back in the "boys will be boys" days, stays in the "boys will be boys" days, except... the shenanigans continued on well after boyhood, into his Catholic prep high school and Yale University. Today, he wouldn't be admitted to a character college with a drinking background like that, no matter who his parents were or what his grades/test scores.
Kavanaugh, by his own admission in his stories of the past, had character issues as a young man. No sisters, no brothers, clearly a follower amongst his friends, not a leader. "
Ardy-hardy: Brett liked to party!" In his Catholic high school yearbook, Kavanaugh published one of 14 references in the book to a young woman who attended a nearby Catholic girls' high school, labeling himself a "Renate Alumni". Classy, Brett, even for a Catholic-high-school football-player boy-virgin.
Two of Judge Kavanaugh’s classmates say the mentions of Renate were part of the football players’ unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests.
“They were very disrespectful, at least verbally, with Renate,” said Sean Hagan, a Georgetown Prep student at the time, referring to Judge Kavanaugh and his teammates. “I can’t express how disgusted I am with them, then and now.” ...
“I learned about these yearbook pages only a few days ago,” Ms. Renate Schroeder Dolphin said in a statement to The New York Times. “I don’t know what ‘Renate Alumnus’ actually means. I can’t begin to comprehend what goes through the minds of 17-year-old boys who write such things, but the insinuation is horrible, hurtful and simply untrue. I pray their daughters are never treated this way. I will have no further comment.”
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Judge Kavanaugh defended his high school behavior in general terms. “People might have had too many beers on occasion and people generally in high school — I think all of us have probably done things we look back on in high school and regret or cringe a bit,” he said.
I believe the women, and men, who have come forward saying Kavanaugh continued as a stumblebunny drunk during his early dorm years at Yale. I believe the man who says he saw Kavanaugh playing with the boys, dropping trou, exposing himself, and getting pushed into a woman, who now refused to talk about it. It fits the pattern of what Kavanaugh thought would stay in the past... He was but a boy! Kids sneaked beers, were immature about their sexuality, didn't treat women as respectfully in retrospect as they would now want their own daughters, and wives, treated. In real time, he got a girl to touch his penis!
Let's stop making excuses and admit, this is who Brett Kavanaugh told us he once was. There were many choices, better choices, of conservative candidates for Supreme Court Justice. Now, the president has to double down defending this (former) doofus. The stories will come out. Times have changed. Nothing stays hidden...
We have a man judging important social issues on our Court, intellectually impressive perhaps, but with his character head-down in the crapper. Keep on asking the questions. Keep on collecting the stories. For every Deborah Ramirez that credibly speaks up, you'll have a nice quiet conservative wife who won't want to go there, and will be content to keep the past buried in the past...
That doesn't make the confirmed accusations any less important. This is who Brett Kavanaugh is, in whole. I don't know about impeachment, but I know this man was never fully vetted, and he will continue to be an embarrassment to the Court, and to good Catholic men who never played the "boys will be boys" excuse game.
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Assholes...."
