Yup, no argument here. In that scenario I laid out above, there is no good way to come out and say that you’re confident that the Democrats are going to crush the GOP in the midterms and so time is a luxury you just don’t have.
I agree with all of your comments in this thread about his temperament, and as this has progressed he makes it harder for me to picture him as someone I’d want on the bench.
And, even if he is innocent and a victim of a political witchunt I agree that he has miscalculated the appropriate response. His best bet would have been to make an authentic and passionate plea to Congress - and viewers - that this is unfair, and a dangerous precedent to set. That he is innocent, and whether Dr. Ford is fabricating a story as part of a political witch hunt or a victim of sexual assault who has simply mixed up identities of her attacker (and if that’s the case that he admires her courage in speaking up and facing an incredibly daunting set of circumstances, even though it has incorrectly sucked him into it), that all he can do is cite his track record, plethora of references/witnesses speaking to his character, etc. That while he is 100% confident that an FBI investigation would clear his name, his confidence level is significantly lower that allowing that process to play out wouldn’t lead to the GOP moving on to another candidate for the sake of expediency, and him losing his chance to fulfill a lifelong dream serving in a role that he thinks he could do quite well in and advance our country forward...
THAT would have been a more appropriate response, and one befitting a man who is - lest we forget - trying to demonstrate his fitness for a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS.
