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LandOfHopeAndDreams

(872 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:03 PM Sep 2018

You Want To Know The 1 Person Who Could Sink Kavanaugh?

His Wife.

If she came out and filed for divorce and gave the reason as her belief that these women are telling the truth, his image would be damaged significantly.

Those of you who feel sorry for her, should consider that. If she came out saying she BELIEVED Dr. Ford over her husband, he would be done, FBI Investigation or not.

Just my opinion.

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You Want To Know The 1 Person Who Could Sink Kavanaugh? (Original Post) LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 OP
She's a Republican operative and GW Bush loyalist. Literally GWB's personal secretary in WH. RockRaven Sep 2018 #1
No surprise she's his type If he were younger and from elsewhere, Hortensis Sep 2018 #33
For the life of me, I dont get how people see her Cosmocat Sep 2018 #40
She's not going to do that, although she sure was glaring at him yesterday. Hoyt Sep 2018 #2
Loyal Stepford Wife. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #3
I see her as another victim of this tragedy. Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #4
She's An Enabler & A Cult Member LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 #8
Your compassion is overwhelming. nt Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #12
Pfft. Why waste compassion on a traitor? D23MIURG23 Sep 2018 #20
So focus on the traitor appointed rapist. You are shaming his victims Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #21
No. I'm shaming an enemy of my country. D23MIURG23 Sep 2018 #23
I think you've lost your way. I mean that sincerely Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #25
Thank you for the voice of reason, john657 Sep 2018 #43
His Wife Is A Victim? LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 #41
My take is,she takes Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #9
I haven't had the privilege of checking her meds cabinet. Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #16
Do you have the same compassion for Bill Cosby's wife as well? ADX Sep 2018 #19
Absolutely! Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #22
So you have no problem with her vehement assertion... ADX Sep 2018 #28
No. She's not on trial Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #30
Thanks for your responses... ADX Sep 2018 #35
A pleasure. nt Xipe Totec Sep 2018 #36
You know that there are women who know everything their husbands have done.... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #42
You just discribed Melania Trump. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #48
Yes, I thought of her as I typed this RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #49
Sad to say,it is true, Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #50
Ah, the sanctity of marriage n/m RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #51
Denial can be strong. She probably sold her soul long ago though. One thing that might brewens Sep 2018 #39
The thing is, he just isn't that rich. smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #46
I Know It Won't Happen LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 #5
May well be a lot of individuals who could sink kav, empedocles Sep 2018 #6
Well, we needed a lull between the Kavanaugh will withdraw threads Awsi Dooger Sep 2018 #7
Maybe if she didn't have kids..... lindysalsagal Sep 2018 #10
That makes sense. I don't think it is possible to live with someone as long as she has and not alwaysinasnit Sep 2018 #38
Why would KKKavanaugh's wife do that? InAbLuEsTaTe Sep 2018 #11
We a first rate Bush supporter malaise Sep 2018 #13
Zero possibility. dalton99a Sep 2018 #14
Did you notice the look on her face during the hearing yesterday? INdemo Sep 2018 #15
I don't think she will... Mike Nelson Sep 2018 #17
She's knows. She's accepts it. She's a mob wife. Conflicted? Maybe, but she themaguffin Sep 2018 #18
Spouses can be loyal for their own reasons DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #24
She probably will! Kajun Gal Sep 2018 #26
She believes the way he does marlakay Sep 2018 #27
The marriage won't last, but it won't end while this is going on. Two or three years from now. Squinch Sep 2018 #29
Both of them are lifelong GOP operatives. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #31
Nope, GRITS will stick it out to the end... Sancho Sep 2018 #32
As long as he didn't do it when she was married Ilsa Sep 2018 #34
I think the one person who can sink Kavanaugh is Kavanaugh. Initech Sep 2018 #37
Yeah, no chance RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #44
She knows but won't be talking. mountain grammy Sep 2018 #45
Wishful thinking bdamomma Sep 2018 #47
He didn't marry until age 39 riverwalker Sep 2018 #52
Catholic n/t defacto7 Sep 2018 #53

RockRaven

(14,899 posts)
1. She's a Republican operative and GW Bush loyalist. Literally GWB's personal secretary in WH.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:06 PM
Sep 2018

No way she does that.

It would sink his nomination, but so would being struck by a meteor the size of a VW Beetle.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
33. No surprise she's his type If he were younger and from elsewhere,
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:03 PM
Sep 2018

Brett would be one of the hard-core conservatives who followed Trump to DC and found himself rejected by local women. Then he and she would meet and be thrilled to discover they'd finally found someone who despised the stupid, conniving Democrats and agreed the detention centers were really like summer camps and children sent to them the fortunate ones.

The ideological sorting out that takes place most of the time.

Cosmocat

(14,559 posts)
40. For the life of me, I dont get how people see her
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:33 PM
Sep 2018

And think that is someone who is uncomfortable being there or whatever.

She very clearly displays the same disdain that he displayed, that she felt he shouldn't have to explain what he did.

I knew absolutely nothing about her going into it, and watching her know she's an entitled, full on conservative, who's in complete agreement with his extremist, partisan views.

 
8. She's An Enabler & A Cult Member
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:14 PM
Sep 2018

I'll judge her. She sat behind that POS yesterday while he ranted and raved. She supports him. She's a fucking adult with free will.

And she chose to marry him. She knew who he was then, and knows who he is now.

D23MIURG23

(2,845 posts)
20. Pfft. Why waste compassion on a traitor?
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:31 PM
Sep 2018

There are plenty of people who don't get the compassion that they deserve, who aren't enabling a traitor appointed rapist to sit on the supreme court.

I'll save my compassion for people who aren't garbage.

D23MIURG23

(2,845 posts)
23. No. I'm shaming an enemy of my country.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:43 PM
Sep 2018

I don't care that K man's rapes might be hurting her feelings (not the same thing as actually being one of his victims, btw) and I don't care what you think is "helpful".

Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts)
25. I think you've lost your way. I mean that sincerely
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:46 PM
Sep 2018

You need to take a timeout because what I'm seeing is lust for blood.

You see a wrong. You want somebody to pay for it.

I get that.

But you don't care who it is that pays the blood debt.

That's a problem.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. My take is,she takes
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:14 PM
Sep 2018

a few uppers or downers,sure fits the picture yesterday. Lived in Utah,seen the look. Friggin Scary,especially when it was a Neighbor who was found O Ded one morning. Big shot Hubby,remarried two months later. The four Kido's are being raised by Gramps and Grams.

Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts)
22. Absolutely!
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:41 PM
Sep 2018

Why would I hold Cosby's wife responsible for Cosby's actions?

Is she on trial?

Then let's hear the evidence and judge her for whatever crimes she may have committed.

But to judge the spouse for the crimes of her husband, that's just sick.

 

ADX

(1,622 posts)
28. So you have no problem with her vehement assertion...
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:55 PM
Sep 2018

...that all of his victims are liars who consented to drugs and sex?



Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts)
30. No. She's not on trial
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:58 PM
Sep 2018

I can dismiss her testimony as invalid.

She is her spouse.

Of course she will support him.

That's why spouses cannot testify against their other spouse.

But also why they cannot credibly defend them.

The person on trial is Bill Cosby.

And his spouses testimony is irrelevant.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
42. You know that there are women who know everything their husbands have done....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:50 PM
Sep 2018

....and do not care in the least, right?

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
50. Sad to say,it is true,
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 09:34 PM
Sep 2018

one of my Study Mates in College married the son of a DIY store chain as her meal ticket. It lasted a couple years,but her Divorce Settlement she claimed was worth it.

brewens

(13,538 posts)
39. Denial can be strong. She probably sold her soul long ago though. One thing that might
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:29 PM
Sep 2018

make it happen is money. I think a big part of this whole thing involves money. There are people that have the goods on this guy and own his ass! That's why they want him on the court so bad. Why Putin wanted his boy as President too.

Kavanaugh's wife, if she was unhappy with the money situation, with the gambling debt and all that, could set herself up real nicely with a tell-all book. They never do though.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
46. The thing is, he just isn't that rich.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:56 PM
Sep 2018

And being a SC Justice won't make him that much richer. Not with the way he gambles and blows it away. I can't understand the upside to her sticking around. She might be better off suing him for divorce and getting on with her own life.

 
5. I Know It Won't Happen
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:12 PM
Sep 2018

She does know where enough of the bodies are buried to get a 7 or 8 figure book deal.

My post was primarily directed at those who say they feel sorry for her, and how she's angry at him. She's Not.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
7. Well, we needed a lull between the Kavanaugh will withdraw threads
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:12 PM
Sep 2018

So we ended up with something 1% as likely

Republican women behind the scenes are more ruthless than the men they prop out there

She probably helped write the opening statement

lindysalsagal

(20,584 posts)
10. Maybe if she didn't have kids.....
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:14 PM
Sep 2018

But, she must have been on the receiving end of that temper before, and she stuck around.

alwaysinasnit

(5,059 posts)
38. That makes sense. I don't think it is possible to live with someone as long as she has and not
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:23 PM
Sep 2018

seen examples of his inner "ugly." It is even possible she has been on the receiving end of that inner ugly.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,121 posts)
11. Why would KKKavanaugh's wife do that?
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:16 PM
Sep 2018

And risk the wrath of a rapist?! I just hope social services will be called to investigate the home for the sake of those two little girls.

dalton99a

(81,404 posts)
14. Zero possibility.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:20 PM
Sep 2018
https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/ashley-estes-brett-kavanaugh-wife/
Ashley Estes & Brett Kavanaugh: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
According to her LinkedIn profile, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh’s last listed job was in 2010, and it was a significant one. She was the Media Relations Coordinator for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. And from 2005 to 2009, she was Director of Special Projects for the George W. Bush Presidential Foundation. But her connection to the Bush family dates back much farther than that.

Ashley was Personal Secretary to President George W. Bush and worked in the White House at the same time as Brett Kavanaugh, before they were married. She was there from 2001 to 2005. She was also Bush’s personal assistant while he was Governor of Texas from 1996 to 1999 and for the Bush-Cheney Presidential campaign from 1996 to 2000.

In fact, Ashley and Brett met while they both worked for the White House. Brett was associate counsel and then staff secretary when he met Ashley, while she was Bush’s secretary. Bush also appointed Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2006.

Ashley and Brett Kavanaugh were married in 2004, when Brett was a United States Circuit Judge. President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush attended their wedding. Their wedding was featured in a “Weddings of the Rich and Famous” column published in the Washingtonian, but only because the Bushes attended.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
15. Did you notice the look on her face during the hearing yesterday?
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:20 PM
Sep 2018

Knowing that she was GW Bush's personal Secretary she probably outlined his theatrical stunts and wrote most of his speech.
she no doubt is an enabler to this alcoholic because her future of living the life of the rich and famous demands that she do this for him.

Mike Nelson

(9,944 posts)
17. I don't think she will...
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:23 PM
Sep 2018

… if she wants a divorce, she will wait until things quiet down & it gets a small mention in a few newspapers. She would get a big settlement for herself and the daughters, I'm sure.

Squinch

(50,913 posts)
29. The marriage won't last, but it won't end while this is going on. Two or three years from now.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:55 PM
Sep 2018

Unless he's confirmed, in which case she'll stay with him.

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
32. Nope, GRITS will stick it out to the end...
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:02 PM
Sep 2018

"obey" is in the vows, children are in the house. If he doesn't hurt the children, she will stick with him - and she will put up with a lot.

Divorce is a sin, and he is forgiven for his transgressions.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
34. As long as he didn't do it when she was married
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:03 PM
Sep 2018

to him, I don't think she will care. She's probably dated other Republican pervs and abusers.

Initech

(100,039 posts)
37. I think the one person who can sink Kavanaugh is Kavanaugh.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:14 PM
Sep 2018

Put him under an interrogation lamp, he'll blow up faster than the Hindenburg.

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