Pro-Kavanaugh Rally. Here’S What Viii Women Had To Say.
by Troy Worden: An lx minutes earlier it started to rain, a crowd of women gathered Th on Capitol Hill only earlier the much-anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on accusations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Of several late-breaking accusations leveled against Kavanaugh, only one—the claim past times Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teens—was the land of report of the commission hearing.
The women who attended the Concerned Women for America’s rally for Kavanaugh didn’t come upwardly to protestation Kavanaugh; they generally came to back upwardly him.
Many wore shirts or buttons boldly declaring, “I stand upwardly amongst Brett” or “Confirm Brett Kavanaugh.”
The women were of unlike ethnicities, ages, occupations, as well as parts of the country. Some had definite opinions nearly the defendant as well as the accusers; others did not. But what united them was a mutual want to hear 1 some other out, fifty-fifty if they didn’t just concur on everything.
Taking a interruption from listening to each other, 8 women shared their thoughts as well as feelings on the accused, the accusers, as well as the #MeToo displace amongst The Daily Signal.
1. ‘We’ve seen how accusations tin destroy people’s lives.’
Sonia Casey, a existent estate investor from Fort Washington, Maryland, describes herself as a “very conservative Republican.”
Casey, 55, came to the rally to back upwardly Kavanaugh as well as thinks he is “a goodness instance to our kids,” referencing his previously spotless record.
“We’ve seen unjust accusations all day,” she laments to The Daily Signal, adding that the accusations “make no sense” inwards the context of everything else she knows nearly Kavanaugh.
But the accusations against Kavanaugh affair to Casey at a deeper level: She says she is a survivor of sexual assault.
“I want to believe it, because I’ve been through it at 4 years old,” she says, but non without qualification. “I’m a woman, thus I’ll back upwardly women, but we’ve seen how accusations tin destroy people’s lives.”
When asked what she thinks is motivating the allegations, she shrugs as well as replies: “The accusations are due to coin floating around.”
2. ‘What the Salem witch trials did.’
Gail Weiss isn’t shy nearly calling herself “Jewish as well as conservative.” She also isn’t shy nearly telling people why she attended the rally today either.
Weiss, who describes herself as a “concerned citizen,” seems sold on Kavanaugh’s legal expertise.
“I’m a large fan of the Constitution,” she says, “and he seems to hold upwardly protecting it, thus that’s why I would similar to encounter him on the Supreme Court.”
“I am hither because the fascists who oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh on the mere ground of totally unsubstantiated allegations are leading us downwards [the incorrect path],” Weiss tells The Daily Signal.
She describes the path the province is on as “the path of the Martin Niemöller quote from World War II, except instantly you lot tin supercede the source draw amongst ‘First they came for Brett Kavanaugh.’”
The Bethesda, Maryland, native says she sees a clear human relationship betwixt the Kavanaugh allegations as well as those lodged against Bill Clinton inwards the 1990s; she errs on the side of caution when speaking nearly the truthfulness of Kavanaugh’s accusers.
“It’s non what I think, it’s what proof has been shown thus far,” she says. “If they demo proof, I volition believe proof. So far at that topographic point has non been whatever proof. There is no bluish clothing amongst whatever deoxyribonucleic acid on it.”
But she warns:If at that topographic point is no proof, as well as thus it is utterly antithetical to a democratic commonwealth to convict someone fifty-fifty inwards the courtroom of populace opinion, to convict someone entirely on an allegation. That was what the Salem witch trials did. Weiss says she sees a farther connector betwixt the #MeToo displace as well as the persecution of straight, white, Christian males, although she thinks that all men, non only those inwards that category, “should hold upwardly very, rattling concerned.”
3. ‘#MeToo … never helped the victims of Bill Clinton’
Juanita Broaddrick needs no introduction to those who have got followed her story since the days of the presidency of Bill Clinton, whom she defendant of raping her decades ago.
Now 75, Broaddrick didn’t hesitate inwards stating that she was “here to indicate out the double measure nosotros have” amongst regard to how her charges as well as Ford’s allegations have got been treated.
“They refused to see, or fifty-fifty aspect at my records,” she says of Democrat lawmakers inwards an interview amongst The Daily Signal:Not 1 Democrat would read this. They wanted nil to exercise amongst it. And instantly they’re hither amongst sketchy as well as vague allegations against Brett Kavanaugh? This is a travesty, this is non right.
But the Van Buren, Arkansas, resident has a unique if fraught human relationship amongst the #MeToo movement. On 1 mitt she is a perfect instance of how men may have got abused their ability to accept wages of women as well as larn away amongst it; on the other, politicians no longer are interested inwards pursuing her allegations against a old president. When asked nearly the #MeToo movement, Broaddrick responds:I don’t have got whatever thought … as far as if it’s a goodness thing or a bad thing. I’m certain the #MeToo [movement] has helped people, but it never helped the victims of Bill Clinton. It wanted nil to exercise amongst us.” Broaddrick notes that upon finding out that Time journal was awarding the displace its coveted “Person of the Year” honor, “I was variety of excited.”
So excited that she gave a favorable comment to the publication, expecting it to look inwards the adjacent issue. But when she read the article, her comments were absent.
“I was told at that topographic point were thus many comments, they couldn’t include mine,” she says, incredulously. “That’s why I don’t back upwardly #MeToo.”
4. ‘It does non reverberate good on the #MeToo movement, as well as it shouldn’t.’
Ingrid Mendez, 55, is an urban planner as well as existent estate agent. She doesn’t consider herself a partisan.
“I consider myself a centrist Republican,” she says, indicating that she attended the rally to back upwardly President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
When asked why she supports Kavanaugh, the Alexandria, Virginia, native makes it clear that she backs him “because I believe inwards him as well as his integrity.”
For that reason, she finds the accusers’ claims to hold upwardly unbelievable, saying, “How convenient for the letters to come upwardly up 3 days earlier [Kavanaugh was supposed to hold upwardly confirmed]. It’s an outrage.”
But tells The Daily Signal that she also has serious doubts nearly the allegations, owing to how they were made.
“I didn’t believe her because of her lack of clarity,” she says of Ford, referencing her belief that clarity is a hallmark of the memories of sexual onrush survivors.
Mendez says the fallout from the allegations volition ultimately wound actual survivors of sexual assault:Unfortunately, it does non reverberate good on the #MeToo displace as well as it shouldn’t. I dorsum the #MeToo displace because they seem to have got legitimate claims, as well as this woman’s claims are laughable. 5. #MeToo Movement only a sham for people denying truth.’
Satya Ath is 18. She identifies as a conservative as well as interns at Regnery Publishing, a conservative publisher.
Ath, who came to Washington from Temecula, California, says she attended the rally because Kavanaugh, whose reputation as well as grapheme she respects, is non receiving the jurist he deserves.
Ath says she sees a double measure inwards the amount of attending as well as credibility the media has given Kavanaugh’s accusers.
“I experience it’s incorrect that her vocalization is heard as well as Kavanaugh isn’t,” she tells The Daily Signal.
“I exercise non observe whatever of his accusers credible,” Ath says, “especially because … Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony inwards her polygraph seek doesn’t gibe the alphabetic quality she gave [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein.”
In low-cal of these discrepancies, Ath accuses the #MeToo displace of using Kavanaugh’s accusers to attain larger political ends.
Ath says that most of her individual Christian schoolhouse classmates are supportive of Kavanaugh, but “in a lot of populace schools as well as college campuses, many girls exercise non empathize that the #MeToo displace is only a sham for people denying truth.”
6. ‘We should honour the humanity … earlier nosotros larn making judgments.’
Margaret McCampbell, 67, isn’t a Republican. She’s non fifty-fifty from the East Coast.
She’s a self-described “Californian at heart,” fifty-fifty though she’s lived inwards Baltimore for over 50 years.
“I wouldn’t say I’m conservative, I tend to lean liberal,” the retired community college professor says. “I only want to hear what everyone has to say, because I recollect nosotros demand to psyche to what everyone has to say.”
That said, McCampbell also says she is a registered Democrat, fifty-fifty though she’s a moderate. “In Maryland, you lot have got to be,” she says of her political party affiliation.
McCampbell industrial plant as a volunteer at the Library of Congress, as well as says she ended upwardly at this item pro-Kavanaugh gathering because she saw the people on her agency to work.
“I similar to read the news,” she says inwards an interview amongst The Daily Signal, “but I only wanted to hear as well as aspect at the people. I want to encounter who’s here.”
But her involvement isn’t inwards Kavanaugh as well as the surrounding controversy. She’s to a greater extent than concerned nearly sexual onrush as well as misconduct inwards less rarified areas of life than the Supreme Court.
She explains: “Yesterday I was listening on the radio to a panel of high schoolhouse students as well as they were talking nearly this whole civilisation of high schoolhouse athletes … I’m to a greater extent than interested inwards that.”
McCampbell notes that she was peculiarly inspired the other twenty-four lx minutes menses past times Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who emphasized the humanity of both Kavanaugh as well as his accuser.
“We should honour the humanity inwards those people earlier nosotros larn making judgment,” she says.
“I tin believe that a adult woman who was assaulted thirty years agone would only come upwardly out nearly now,” she says, pointing to Bill Cosby’s accusers as her instance inwards point. “People blew them off. But instantly they establish out there’s credibility there.”
7. ‘This whole thing is a desperate act.’
“I would consider myself pretty conservative, I ever vote Republican,” Debbie Martin says, amongst some confidence.
“I’m hither because I loathe seeing what’s happening to Judge Kavanaugh,” says Martin, who is inwards her 40s. “I recollect that if nosotros don’t displace frontward amongst a vote, that it is setting a genuinely unsafe precedent for this province that you lot tin ruin someone’s life as well as career amongst 1 accusation. I don’t believe inwards that. I believe inwards [the regulation of] innocent until proven guilty as well as I only don’t similar this.”
“I would never say that something did non move on because I don’t know,” the Alexandria native says, but adds that she finds Kavanaugh’s accusers, Ford inwards particular, lacking inwards credibility because of the lack of corroborating evidence.
“I recollect it’s bad for true sexual onrush victims too,” she notes, “because it tin brand them unsure nearly coming out if they’ve genuinely been attacked because of this display on both sides.”
Asked nearly why she thinks the accusers as well as the Democrats have got come upwardly frontward amongst the allegations now, she says:I only recollect that this whole thing is a desperate act. I recollect that the Democrats don’t genuinely attention whether he’s guilty or innocent, I recollect they only attention nearly keeping him off the Supreme Court at all costs. She says she thinks the problem amongst Kavanaugh signals a larger cultural as well as political trend.
“I recollect the #MeToo displace has been variety of hijacked past times the Democrats inwards a way. It started out for a goodness cause, but instantly it’s turned into a political tool to utilisation against people who don’t concur amongst you.
“That’s rattling lamentable as well as discouraging,” she concludes.
8. ‘I exercise believe women, but I also believe men too.’
Clare Ath is a 22-year-old millennial from the suburbs of Chicago. She instantly lives inwards the nation’s upper-case alphabetic quality as well as industrial plant as a campus outreach coordinator for the National Review Institute.
Ath, no relation to Satya Ath, says she attended the rally because Kavanaugh has been an of import land of report of belatedly to National Review.
“I should come upwardly as well as demo my support,” she tells The Daily Signal, “primarily because I exercise believe women, but I also believe men too.”
“I recollect that a lot of what’s happening correct instantly is media hyperbole, as well as people are getting away from the facts as well as the actual accusations that nosotros exercise have,” she adds.
Ath says she doesn’t believe the women’s accusations because they are inconsistent as well as non particular. She says this is inwards stark contrast to Kavanaugh’s denials, which are thus specific that they pose him inwards legal jeopardy:What he’s maxim is that he unequivocally denies these accusations, important that he’s putting himself at gamble for perjury if anything does comes out. That’s something a lot to a greater extent than people should hold upwardly talking about. Ath says she thinks the #MeToo displace as well as the Kavanaugh allegations are connected, fifty-fifty if the old is a positive development. Likening #MeToo to her all-girls college inwards Indiana, she notes the establishment was pro-woman, “but inwards a agency that I felt was antithetical to its purpose.”
“The #MeToo displace is goodness because at that topographic point are problems that demand to hold upwardly addressed as well as women demand to hold upwardly treated equally,” she says.
She emphasizes that “we should hold upwardly pursuing people … who’ve genuinely done bad things, non taking a lawyer who has had an impeccable career as well as making him out to hold upwardly the boogeyman,” adding:I recollect a lot of people are identifying amongst their ain personal experiences, as well as putting that on Brett Kavanaugh. They want to catch him as the bad guy because they want to punish someone inwards their lives who has wronged them. She recounts how she marked herself as going to this outcome on Facebook, only to have angry reactions from women she went to college with.
“They don’t know Brett Kavanaugh,” she says.
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Troy Worden is a fellow member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation as well as contributed this article to The Daily Signal.
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Of several late-breaking accusations leveled against Kavanaugh, only one—the claim past times Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teens—was the land of report of the commission hearing.
The women who attended the Concerned Women for America’s rally for Kavanaugh didn’t come upwardly to protestation Kavanaugh; they generally came to back upwardly him.
Many wore shirts or buttons boldly declaring, “I stand upwardly amongst Brett” or “Confirm Brett Kavanaugh.”
The women were of unlike ethnicities, ages, occupations, as well as parts of the country. Some had definite opinions nearly the defendant as well as the accusers; others did not. But what united them was a mutual want to hear 1 some other out, fifty-fifty if they didn’t just concur on everything.
Taking a interruption from listening to each other, 8 women shared their thoughts as well as feelings on the accused, the accusers, as well as the #MeToo displace amongst The Daily Signal.
Sonia Casey, a existent estate investor from Fort Washington, Maryland, describes herself as a “very conservative Republican.”
Casey, 55, came to the rally to back upwardly Kavanaugh as well as thinks he is “a goodness instance to our kids,” referencing his previously spotless record.
“We’ve seen unjust accusations all day,” she laments to The Daily Signal, adding that the accusations “make no sense” inwards the context of everything else she knows nearly Kavanaugh.
But the accusations against Kavanaugh affair to Casey at a deeper level: She says she is a survivor of sexual assault.
“I want to believe it, because I’ve been through it at 4 years old,” she says, but non without qualification. “I’m a woman, thus I’ll back upwardly women, but we’ve seen how accusations tin destroy people’s lives.”
When asked what she thinks is motivating the allegations, she shrugs as well as replies: “The accusations are due to coin floating around.”
Gail Weiss isn’t shy nearly calling herself “Jewish as well as conservative.” She also isn’t shy nearly telling people why she attended the rally today either.
Weiss, who describes herself as a “concerned citizen,” seems sold on Kavanaugh’s legal expertise.
“I’m a large fan of the Constitution,” she says, “and he seems to hold upwardly protecting it, thus that’s why I would similar to encounter him on the Supreme Court.”
“I am hither because the fascists who oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh on the mere ground of totally unsubstantiated allegations are leading us downwards [the incorrect path],” Weiss tells The Daily Signal.
She describes the path the province is on as “the path of the Martin Niemöller quote from World War II, except instantly you lot tin supercede the source draw amongst ‘First they came for Brett Kavanaugh.’”
The Bethesda, Maryland, native says she sees a clear human relationship betwixt the Kavanaugh allegations as well as those lodged against Bill Clinton inwards the 1990s; she errs on the side of caution when speaking nearly the truthfulness of Kavanaugh’s accusers.
“It’s non what I think, it’s what proof has been shown thus far,” she says. “If they demo proof, I volition believe proof. So far at that topographic point has non been whatever proof. There is no bluish clothing amongst whatever deoxyribonucleic acid on it.”
But she warns:
Juanita Broaddrick needs no introduction to those who have got followed her story since the days of the presidency of Bill Clinton, whom she defendant of raping her decades ago.
Now 75, Broaddrick didn’t hesitate inwards stating that she was “here to indicate out the double measure nosotros have” amongst regard to how her charges as well as Ford’s allegations have got been treated.
“They refused to see, or fifty-fifty aspect at my records,” she says of Democrat lawmakers inwards an interview amongst The Daily Signal:
But the Van Buren, Arkansas, resident has a unique if fraught human relationship amongst the #MeToo movement. On 1 mitt she is a perfect instance of how men may have got abused their ability to accept wages of women as well as larn away amongst it; on the other, politicians no longer are interested inwards pursuing her allegations against a old president.
So excited that she gave a favorable comment to the publication, expecting it to look inwards the adjacent issue. But when she read the article, her comments were absent.
“I was told at that topographic point were thus many comments, they couldn’t include mine,” she says, incredulously. “That’s why I don’t back upwardly #MeToo.”
Ingrid Mendez, 55, is an urban planner as well as existent estate agent. She doesn’t consider herself a partisan.
“I consider myself a centrist Republican,” she says, indicating that she attended the rally to back upwardly President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
When asked why she supports Kavanaugh, the Alexandria, Virginia, native makes it clear that she backs him “because I believe inwards him as well as his integrity.”
For that reason, she finds the accusers’ claims to hold upwardly unbelievable, saying, “How convenient for the letters to come upwardly up 3 days earlier [Kavanaugh was supposed to hold upwardly confirmed]. It’s an outrage.”
But tells The Daily Signal that she also has serious doubts nearly the allegations, owing to how they were made.
“I didn’t believe her because of her lack of clarity,” she says of Ford, referencing her belief that clarity is a hallmark of the memories of sexual onrush survivors.
Mendez says the fallout from the allegations volition ultimately wound actual survivors of sexual assault:
Satya Ath is 18. She identifies as a conservative as well as interns at Regnery Publishing, a conservative publisher.Ath, who came to Washington from Temecula, California, says she attended the rally because Kavanaugh, whose reputation as well as grapheme she respects, is non receiving the jurist he deserves.
Ath says she sees a double measure inwards the amount of attending as well as credibility the media has given Kavanaugh’s accusers.
“I experience it’s incorrect that her vocalization is heard as well as Kavanaugh isn’t,” she tells The Daily Signal.
“I exercise non observe whatever of his accusers credible,” Ath says, “especially because … Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony inwards her polygraph seek doesn’t gibe the alphabetic quality she gave [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein.”
In low-cal of these discrepancies, Ath accuses the #MeToo displace of using Kavanaugh’s accusers to attain larger political ends.
Ath says that most of her individual Christian schoolhouse classmates are supportive of Kavanaugh, but “in a lot of populace schools as well as college campuses, many girls exercise non empathize that the #MeToo displace is only a sham for people denying truth.”
Margaret McCampbell, 67, isn’t a Republican. She’s non fifty-fifty from the East Coast.
She’s a self-described “Californian at heart,” fifty-fifty though she’s lived inwards Baltimore for over 50 years.
“I wouldn’t say I’m conservative, I tend to lean liberal,” the retired community college professor says. “I only want to hear what everyone has to say, because I recollect nosotros demand to psyche to what everyone has to say.”
That said, McCampbell also says she is a registered Democrat, fifty-fifty though she’s a moderate. “In Maryland, you lot have got to be,” she says of her political party affiliation.
McCampbell industrial plant as a volunteer at the Library of Congress, as well as says she ended upwardly at this item pro-Kavanaugh gathering because she saw the people on her agency to work.
“I similar to read the news,” she says inwards an interview amongst The Daily Signal, “but I only wanted to hear as well as aspect at the people. I want to encounter who’s here.”
But her involvement isn’t inwards Kavanaugh as well as the surrounding controversy. She’s to a greater extent than concerned nearly sexual onrush as well as misconduct inwards less rarified areas of life than the Supreme Court.
She explains: “Yesterday I was listening on the radio to a panel of high schoolhouse students as well as they were talking nearly this whole civilisation of high schoolhouse athletes … I’m to a greater extent than interested inwards that.”
McCampbell notes that she was peculiarly inspired the other twenty-four lx minutes menses past times Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who emphasized the humanity of both Kavanaugh as well as his accuser.
“We should honour the humanity inwards those people earlier nosotros larn making judgment,” she says.
“I tin believe that a adult woman who was assaulted thirty years agone would only come upwardly out nearly now,” she says, pointing to Bill Cosby’s accusers as her instance inwards point. “People blew them off. But instantly they establish out there’s credibility there.”
7. ‘This whole thing is a desperate act.’“I would consider myself pretty conservative, I ever vote Republican,” Debbie Martin says, amongst some confidence.
“I’m hither because I loathe seeing what’s happening to Judge Kavanaugh,” says Martin, who is inwards her 40s. “I recollect that if nosotros don’t displace frontward amongst a vote, that it is setting a genuinely unsafe precedent for this province that you lot tin ruin someone’s life as well as career amongst 1 accusation. I don’t believe inwards that. I believe inwards [the regulation of] innocent until proven guilty as well as I only don’t similar this.”
“I would never say that something did non move on because I don’t know,” the Alexandria native says, but adds that she finds Kavanaugh’s accusers, Ford inwards particular, lacking inwards credibility because of the lack of corroborating evidence.
“I recollect it’s bad for true sexual onrush victims too,” she notes, “because it tin brand them unsure nearly coming out if they’ve genuinely been attacked because of this display on both sides.”
Asked nearly why she thinks the accusers as well as the Democrats have got come upwardly frontward amongst the allegations now, she says:
“I recollect the #MeToo displace has been variety of hijacked past times the Democrats inwards a way. It started out for a goodness cause, but instantly it’s turned into a political tool to utilisation against people who don’t concur amongst you.
“That’s rattling lamentable as well as discouraging,” she concludes.
8. ‘I exercise believe women, but I also believe men too.’Clare Ath is a 22-year-old millennial from the suburbs of Chicago. She instantly lives inwards the nation’s upper-case alphabetic quality as well as industrial plant as a campus outreach coordinator for the National Review Institute.
Ath, no relation to Satya Ath, says she attended the rally because Kavanaugh has been an of import land of report of belatedly to National Review.
“I should come upwardly as well as demo my support,” she tells The Daily Signal, “primarily because I exercise believe women, but I also believe men too.”
“I recollect that a lot of what’s happening correct instantly is media hyperbole, as well as people are getting away from the facts as well as the actual accusations that nosotros exercise have,” she adds.
Ath says she doesn’t believe the women’s accusations because they are inconsistent as well as non particular. She says this is inwards stark contrast to Kavanaugh’s denials, which are thus specific that they pose him inwards legal jeopardy:
“The #MeToo displace is goodness because at that topographic point are problems that demand to hold upwardly addressed as well as women demand to hold upwardly treated equally,” she says.
She emphasizes that “we should hold upwardly pursuing people … who’ve genuinely done bad things, non taking a lawyer who has had an impeccable career as well as making him out to hold upwardly the boogeyman,” adding:
“They don’t know Brett Kavanaugh,” she says.
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Troy Worden is a fellow member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation as well as contributed this article to The Daily Signal.
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