When I was a wee lad of 9, I had to have a babysitter occasionally when my grandparents couldn’t have me while my parents were out for the night.

One Saturday afternoon, my mother commented “Shari” (not her real name) was coming over to babysit me. I didn’t think anything of it as I was ready to leave to play baseball against another bunch of kids from a different neighborhood. Once I returned home, I was told to take a bath and Shari would soon be over. I did as I was told and as on my parents bed reading a Tom Mix book, one of those “Big, Little Books” so popular years before that my grandmother gave me. Mom came and kissed me goodbye and following her was this beautiful creature of 16 – Shari.

I have to admit, even at 9 I had a thing for girls and natural curiosity by a young man was part of growing up. Shari was cute, smelled nice, and put her arm around me. We had a root beer float, watched a little TV, and I went to bed at nine o’clock, as ordered by my mother. I was under the covers and Shari came in, bent over, and placed her warm lips on mine. Wow, I didn’t expect that. No would you like a goodnight kiss or any warning, just planted one on me. I’m not going to lie, I liked it… I even asked for another, the naughty boy I was.

Was she a sexual predator? I was 9 and she was 16. I can remember everything about that night, where I was, how I got there, and what happened explicitly. The color of the room (blue) and bedspread (burgundy), the overhead light, the shadow of her body hovering over me, her perfume, her hair spray scent, her soft lips.

This really happened to me at 9 years old and I wasn’t drunk or drugged. I probably had a sugar high from the root beer float, but it didn’t affect my memory.

Ms. Ford can really only remember the names of those in the bedroom with her, but she can’t remember how she got there, what house she was in, how she got home, not much of anything except names of boys she didn’t know and had no exposure to before — they weren’t classmates, they weren’t neighbors.

And she admits she was under the influence of alcohol as were the boys trying to molest her. Her friends at the party don’t remember the incident or even remember the party or Brett Kavanaugh or Mark Judge.

In Julie Swetnick’s case, she said Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her and plied others with liquor in the punchbowl so rape could occur with young ladies at the party. Evidently Ms. Swetnick said these “gang rape parties” happened more than once and Mr. Kavanaugh was at one, or many, and he was the ring leader. Really, rapes happened at Yale on a regular basis and nobody, nobody said a thing in the 1980s, we are expected to believe this? I have strong suspicions that if one or a few rapes happened on campus at Yale or off campus, it wouldn’t stay a secret long, especially if they were repeated regularly.

As Army Bob and others have put forth before, the FBI investigates the background of candidates by talking to friends, work acquaintances, relatives, high school and college classmates, etc. They gather information, make a report and put it in a nice folder to present to those needing to know. They don’t come to a conclusion or recommendation, they just present information.

Mark Kavanaugh has been investigated six times previously during his climb up the civil service judge positions. He has proven he is a strong supporter of the U.S. Constitution, has been a solid jurist, and has had a superb career as a judge. The left and Fake News media (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc.) are trying to stop his nomination because:

1) He was selected by President Trump.

2) He is viewed as a conservative leaning judge.

3) He attacked the Democrats and media over these accusations and what it is doing to his family, his honor, and his reputation. After what the Democrats have said and attacked him, I’m glad he stood his ground and fired back.

It is the classic “she said,” “he said” — with no corroboration, no evidence, no facts, no witnesses. In short, there is nothing there “there.”.Does she have a false memory? Maybe. No sane prosecutor would ever go to trial with a case such as this with no evidence, no corroboration, no facts nor witnesses.

To the Republicans, after this charade of Democrat resistance, take the vote after the FBI is done in a week and confirm this fine man to the U.S. Supreme Court and leave his family alone.

This is really about one thing, defending abortion. Democrats are worried about any vote concerning abortion rights with a conservative court. As well they should, since there are many that say it is unconstitutional.

Let the games begin.

The rotting of America from within continues…