Personally, I think the statute of limitations on the alleged attempted drunken rape has expired. Kavanaugh was nominated to be a Supreme Court justice, not a saint, and re-examining his behavior as a high school student is, to me, a stretch. But assume I’m wrong. How would you go about trying to find out whether this episode actually happened or not?
Well, duh. You would have law enforcement do a real investigation, including interviewing all of the possible witnesses. What you wouldn’t do is parade the two protagonists in front of a group of grandstanding politicians who have every reason to play to the camera and who have already made up their minds for self-interested reasons.
What we are going to have is political theater at its worst. The GOP will be trying to destroy Ms. Ford’s credibility without looking like misogynists and thereby losing even more female votes in November. Will they succeed? My guess is that 99 percent of America has already taken sides on that issue, and it won’t matter much.