This is a big deal. This lady needs to be allowed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/16/kavanaugh-accuser-speaks-out-publicly/

From Huffpost:

Kavanaugh and the GOP cannot now just sweep it under the carpet, his nomination must be suspended.

Unless more women come forward. One is never enough. She will be slut-shamed and he will be excused for being a drunken teenager.

a difference.

I WANT to believe there is a bottom line that wouldn’t be crossed, a path too low to crawl on, a law too important to humanity that the Republicans won’t arrogantly disrespect.

prepare oneself even for cool-eyed evaluation of a situation, much less help someone who wants to be hopeful.

You know, they say physically smiling actually makes people feel a bit happier. Maybe try keyboarding positive points and see if they pull you up out of what sounds like a kind of emotionally protective but inappropriate surrender.

I'll kick this off. Kavanaugh himself and his nomination were both basically swept off the news by the storm, no doubt assisted by evil manipulations. This has put both back in the media, with a spotlight on him. Huge improvement. Note that Kavanaugh doesn't have to be proven guilty of this for the many evidences of bad character to be revisited. There're many enormous reasons why he shouldn't be on any court. One of the things we need is Collins and Murkowski's protective pretenses of believing he won't do women great harm to be revealed to their voters for the lies they are.

build up, I do more than just fine in the smiling department. And I’ll continue to use my keyboard to express daily feelings.

“They” say a lot of things. And usually “they” don’t know any better than anyone else on a message board.

Do come into play and for future voters their yea or nay will most definitely mean serious consequences to their political future.

My concern is much the same as with all the other blockbuster and bombshell revelations about everyone, every level in this administration since the Cretin first announced his candidacy.

None of this will matter to those in the Senate who are casting votes. They mostly don’t seem to have souls. And we will have this jerk on the court, regardless.

It is damned infuriating.

NOW do you believe her?

A sexual molester I am acquainted with recently came forward with a polygraph, in a vain attempt to get off the hook. He passed it. I am confident that Trump could pass any polygraph used on him.

(Fortunately, in my recent experience, the molestor's own record of his attitude toward the victim sunk the case the arbiters referred to as, "classic he-said-she-said," even though he had a polygraph of him denying the molestation - and the victim had nothing but her own word.)

A polygraph is NOT a reason to believe someone.

(I do believe her - it is your implication that the polygraph should determine the outcome I am addressing - because I know from direct recent experience they are not accurate.)

I believe her, but there needs to be more women stepping forward with similar stories to stop this confirmation dead in it's tracks.

What will seal it for me is how Kavanaugh reacts.

If he acknowledges it, apologizes for it, and actively quashes efforts to smear her reputation (none of which are likely), I would not hold one incident as a drunk teenager as an absolute barrier for the position. I've had far too many experiences with teenage boys (drunk or not), some of whom have gone on to become stellar individuals - including one whose behavior bothered him so much over the years that he sought me out more than 4 decades after the incident to apologize.

If he continues to deny it or does not actively work against the smear machine that is almost certain to start rolling, that alone makes him unfit, in my estimation.

he shouldn't be confirmed.
I hope he does the right thing, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it.

I think that is the implication here.

especially since this is the first time we've heard her story.

There are are other details far more compelling than the polygraph to bolster her credibility - why pick out the polygraph, rather than the numerous people she has told in recent years, without naming him specifically (i.e. no intent in describing the incident to destroy him) and long before Kavanaugh was a candidate for the Supreme Court (so she could not have been relating the incidents to prevent his nomination).

The polygraph is far less important than the rest of the details disclosed simultaneously with the disclosure of the polygraph.

Link to tweet

At least the men will. There's a slight chance, though, that a couple of female Senators might see this as an edge issue.

I'm not confident at all about that, though.

Her story has the ring of truth, given the people's ages at the time. Teenaged boys, especially those who attend all-male high schools, aren't known for their subtlety or knowledge of how to get along with girls. It's a poor environment during adolescence, I think.

I am hoping more will come forward.