Pull My Middle Finger

In comments, someone pointed out this gem from Kathleen Parker, the columnist who floated the doppleganger theory before Ed Whelan made it radioactive. First, she tries out the “he’s not a rapey drunk now” defense:

I couldn’t agree more — but particularly in the context of the here and now. Does Kavanaugh get staggeringly drunk nowadays? Doubt it. Does he get aggressive and belligerent now? He was certainly rather animated last week, but wouldn’t you be, too, if your character were suddenly scrutinized for hours in a public forum?

I would hope that I wouldn’t lie whenever I wasn’t dodging direct questions. It gets dumber:

As for Kavanaugh’s views on abortion, it is also possible to believe in something in one’s personal life but also believe in settled law. Just as President John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, said he didn’t take orders from the Vatican, Kavanaugh may feel the same. On a personal note, although I would try to dissuade a woman from aborting her baby, I strenuously oppose state involvement in an individual’s corporal autonomy. A government that can force a woman to have a child can also force her to abort her fetus, as China has done.

And it’s possible that Donald Trump will win the Nobel Prize for Physics on a day sun sets in the East, but sometimes you have to go with what all the evidence suggests.

BTW, Paul said somebody should write a book about the Federalist Society and American Politics. Someone did! Amanda Hollis-Brusky’s Ideas With Consequences is excellent, and I would advocate sending a copy to Parker only when someone’s salary depends on not understanding something etc.