In the end, will it just come down to how big a hit with female voter the repbulicans are prepared to wear in order to get their man through?

Ford's testimony was credible and compelling, the prosecutor they hired was unable to find anything that damaged it. They know that by ignoring it they will make a lot of women, many of them silent victims of sexual assault themselves, angry and alienated from the party. They have to weigh this up against getting this political hack on the bench. It won't be the investigation, but this calculation that determines if they push him through

Well… I guess looking at your own one-dimensional thinking… Let alone the biases that drive it… Is out of the question… Isn't it?

I think that is a something they will have to consider.

However-- I was really surprised to hear my wife say that while she was at the beauty shop, all the women watching Christine on TV said that they thought it was ridiculous. They said she should have said something thirty years ago, and had little sympathy for her. They were on Kavanaugh's side! So maybe it isn't as big of a thing as we might think!

But as you say, I can't see any woman who has been molested supporting Kavanaugh if they even suspect that he might have done it.

Certainly not unreasonable to think so. But I think they're more concerned with getting another conservative on the SCOTUS and will give up anything for that.

He will be confirmed.