Capehart: ‘Optics’ of Kavanaugh and Accuser Testifying ‘Will Be Horrendous’ for GOP

RUSH EXCEPRT: 

CAPEHART: "The optics of what could happen, I believe, will be horrendous for Republicans. Because she will sit before a Senate Judiciary Committee where the majority is all men. And all white men, compared to the Democrats who are on the committee who are, you know, the rainbow that is America right now. So you’re going to have people, Republicans in the majority asking her questions, treating her in a way that is just going to put them in peril. You’ll have a woman who is going to be baring hul of a secret she’s had for 30-something years N they’re going to treat her terribly. The White House is going to treat her terribly. It’s only a matter of time before the president takes to Twitter and treats her terribly. I think what senator Collins has done, and I have covered senator Collins for a long time now. She is about process. Because to her mind, process equals fairness. We saw this during the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” She was frustrating to a lot of people because she wanted to understand the process. What was the Obama Administration doing to get the Pentagon in order, in order for this to happen that made her feel comfortable that the whole thing was fair. I think that her calling on the two of them to testify under oath was a very dramatic thing for her to do. It is a process. And it is a process that — and you get those, too. It’s going to be theater of the absurd, but by having them under oath, it’s as much of a guarantee as you can have of everything being fair because now they are putting their hand on the bible. They are saying I’m telling the truth, and the penalty for not ING the truth to Congress is jail."