CNN’s Gergen on Susan Collins’ Vote on Kavanaugh: ‘Disappointing’ — This Was Not a Declaration of Conscience

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GERGEN: “Well, I’m afraid it doesn’t hold up. In the court of public opinion, this was a theory that was being passed around earlier about a week ago by people in Washington. It was dismissed because there wasn’t anything to it. And the theory was obviously, yes, she was assaulted, but not by this man. Susan Collins in particular has been making the point that there wasn’t enough corroborating evidence to show that Kavanaugh might have been guilty of these things, therefore, she voted against him. But there’s zero evidence there’s any alternative person out there who might have done this. Let me say about Susan Collins, she’s a fine woman. I have respected her for years. She’s done many brave things on behalf of women. On this particular issue, you know, I think what she said was disappointing because as much as she thought about it, she simply did not have arguments that went far enough. And for a woman and a person who’s been so bipartisan for so long, to put all the blame on Democrats and say, by the way, they were basically buying into the mob theory of Democrats and have no critique of her own party, it’s not showing the leadership of Margaret chase who to do up to Joe Mccarthy with the speech about declaration of this was not a declaration of conscious, I’m afraid.”