Ever since his good friend John McCain was diagnosed with cancer, Sen. Lindsey Graham has been clinging to Donald Trump's doughy ankles like a freshwater leech. His latest act of servitude has been an extended fainting couch routine over the way poor, poor lying Brett Kavanaugh has been treated, what with multiple women coming forward to accuse him of sexual assault.
Now that both Senate Republicans and Trump himself have very publicly spiked the football right in the #MeToo movement's face, it's time for Republicans to do a bit of damage control—you know, to pretend they give a damn—and Lindsey Graham is, as could be expected, so very bad at this that he probably should just stop talking.
Hey Lindsey, what's your message for all the women who came forward with their own experiences with sexual assault, only to see you, Chuck Grassley, and the whole Republican Party ignore them, sneer at them, and cap it all off with a promotion and a cocktail party for the accused aggressive blackout drunk?
“No, I’m not [worried that fewer people will come forward],” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). “I think Dr. Ford was treated well. I think the roles were reversed. The slut-whore-drunk was Kavanaugh. You know, I’ve done this for a long time… All I can say is that, seldom do you advance justice by creating an injustice. And I think it would have been unjust for Judge Kavanaugh to have his life ruined based on the allegations that were presented.”
Buddy, my life has been ruined for years because I haven't been given a cushy Supreme Court slot, and you don't hear anyone coming to my rescue.
Aside from that, there you have it: Lindsey believes that his party did Dr. Ford the utmost courtesy in hearing her testimony, then declaring that she didn't properly know the events of her own life. A sitting president told the nation repeatedly that she was the central cog in a massive hoax to bring a good man down, that she was a liar and a danger to the republic.
But this time, Lindsey says, the slut-whore-drunk was Kavanaugh. I'm not sure whose tombstone that should go on, but it definitely feels like a phrase meant to be etched in granite.
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