When the first sexual assault accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh put her name to the allegation, Republicans were quick to paint Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as a daffy, singular occurrence—a one-off, as it were. They called her "mixed up" and suggested she was committing a "drive-by" assassination of Kavanaugh. Ya know—just some crazy broad taking an unwarranted swipe at their guy.
My, how times change. With the advent of Kavanaugh's second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, and the potential of a third credible accuser on the horizon, Republicans now have a different billing for the situation.
"This is really getting kind of carried away, it’s feeling more like a circus," Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said of the Ramirez revelation in the New Yorker. "But again, I did feel like this first accuser should be heard.”
Sure, one woman was okay, but the idea that someone who was a belligerent binge drinker in high school and college might have also been a serial assaulter is just preposterous.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas went a step further and preemptively dismissed any new allegations as "nonsense."
"As you can tell, people are coming out of the woodwork making incredible, uncorroborated allegations," he said, "and I think you can just expect that kind of nonsense to continue."
Cornyn clearly expects it continue. That's probably why Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley has scheduled a panel vote for Friday and is apparently refusing to check into the allegations made by Ramirez. Republicans don't want their members to have any lag time to think twice about their vote and they definitely don't want to encourage any more women to come forward by taking any of the these new claims seriously.
Better lock this "circus" down ASAP so the lady folk don't get any more crazy ideas and Kavanaugh's character is shielded from any more scrutiny.